Along the same lines as this question, why is there a Query and a Lookup classification? Both are asking questions for information. I would like to know an answer for a better distinction when I am cleaning my boards. Jan -----Original Message----- From: boards-admins-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:boards-admins-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Joan Asche Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2006 7:29 AM To: boards-admins@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [BAd] What's the Point of the Classification Feature? Hi, If you click on advance search you will see that one can use the classification feature to search. I'm sure someone else has a better explanation but it is available under advance search as a search tool. J. Asche On 8/29/06, Kaesemein@aol.com <Kaesemein@aol.com> wrote: > Hello Folks, > > After spending hours cleaning up my board (which I'm still in the process of > doing) with over > 10,000 posts -- yep, you read that right--TEN THOUSAND! ----- I posted a > message asking > Message Board posters to please take the time to read the Message Board > Rules link > at the bottom of the page. > > I've received a reply from a regular poster and contributor who helps with > many requests for > birth, marriage and death records. He says he doesn't really see what the > point is for the > Classification feature and I'm not sure I see the point either....because > one can read the post > and KNOW what the information is about and thus, the Classification. > > Is there something in the Search capabilities that I'm not aware of? I'd > appreciate some > advice on what to tell this poster. > > Thanks! > Marilyn > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BOARDS-ADMINS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BOARDS-ADMINS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Jan, In the current board system, Query and Lookup are * NOT * the same thing. The Lookup category is reserved for those who are offering to do lookups from some source available to them. It should * NOT * be used by someone who is asking for a lookup -- that should be a Query classification. -- Mary On Tue, 29 Aug 2006, Jan Buker wrote: > Along the same lines as this question, why is there a Query and a Lookup > classification? Both are asking questions for information. I would like to > know an answer for a better distinction when I am cleaning my boards. > > Jan >

Mary is right about the original intent. The meaning of "Lookup" in the system that was replaced by the Rootsweb boards was for people to list books, microfilms and other data sources that they were OFFERING to do lookups in, not that they were asking for lookups in. The user could do a search with the Category being "Lookup" and the search term being the name of a book or whatever, and see if there was anyone who had offered to do lookups in that source. Since almost nobody knows that is what it was meant for, it does seem confusing to leave it in the system. If it is left in, "Lookup Volunteers" or even just "Volunteers" might be better at conveying the intent. -----Original Message----- From: boards-admins-bounces@rootsweb.com on behalf of Mary D. Taffet Sent: Tue 8/29/2006 9:54 AM To: boards-admins@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [BAd] What's the Point of the Classification Feature?JavaScript:SetCmd(cmdSend); Jan, In the current board system, Query and Lookup are * NOT * the same thing. The Lookup category is reserved for those who are offering to do lookups from some source available to them. It should * NOT * be used by someone who is asking for a lookup -- that should be a Query classification. -- Mary On Tue, 29 Aug 2006, Jan Buker wrote: > Along the same lines as this question, why is there a Query and a Lookup > classification? Both are asking questions for information. I would like to > know an answer for a better distinction when I am cleaning my boards. > > Jan > ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BOARDS-ADMINS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message