On Sunday, August 20, 2006 8:22 AM MDT, jill warland <jilliocity@hotmail.com> wrote: >I like your idea in spirit, but I agree with Chris that there are often >posts even on Surname boards that wouldn't require a surname. Perhaps a [?] >button beside the surname box with a question/query mark that brings up a >"help" message regarding "what's this surname box for?" Years ago, I asked for the label of this field to be changed from just "Surnames" to "Surnames in this Message". That would get the point across right up front, because you know few people will click on such a ? box. S R C A cott obert ranston nderson srca@mindspring.com Admin, {C{offield,ollosky,ommons,ranston,ummins},OHGuerns,USAGen}@RootsWeb.com

I like the idea of specifying "Surnames in this message". Not all people know that the surnames box is for just those names and not for all the surnames they're searching for. Carlette ----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott R. C. Anderson" <srca@mindspring.com> To: <boards-admins@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, August 20, 2006 11:34 AM Subject: Re: [BAd] blank surname board Years ago, I asked for the label of this field to be changed from just "Surnames" to "Surnames in this Message". That would get the point across right up front, because you know few people will click on such a ? box.

If you've been reading on the list owners list, you'll know that a question has come up about how to allow someone to post to the board and that message sent on to the mailing list if the poster is not a member of the list. At least, I think that's the question.... I didn't know that posters to a board HAD to be members of the list. I thought that if you want to post to a board, you could do that and that it would automatically go on to the list. This below is what one list owner questioned. I sort of question the same thing???? Carlette have a non subscriber who posts many helpful records to the message board of the same surname. Her posts are now coming to me (instead of the mail list) and then I have to 'ok' them to send to the list. I have been away for 2 days and there are several posts to be attended to....or, that my list has not received as of yet. HOWEVER, it's my understanding that this will change once the message boards 'migrate'. Right? Question: This non subscriber prefers to stay in the background and would rather not have tons of irrelevant posts (the surname has about 3 major families on the list and she is not interested in the other two) in her mailbox. COULD I (with her permission) sub her to the list, but put her in 'no mail' mode? Would she then be able to post from the message board whenever she wants, but not receive the mail from the list? (sounds logical, but then...what do I know