Teri, I truly beg to differ. As Joan said in an earlier post in this thread (to be specific: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/BOARDS-ADMINS/2006-08/1156871165 ) "LOOKUP has a limited usage for replies to queries that quote data from a variety of sources." 1. These posts are "replies to queries". 2. They "quote data". 3. The data is from "a variety of sources". If LOOKUP is not "the results of doing lookups", what is your definition? Jackie On Wed Aug 30 13:26 , 'Teri Pettit' <pettit@adobe.com> sent: >But that volunteer is misusing the classification. It is not meant for the results of doing lookups. > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: boards-admins-bounces@rootsweb.com on behalf of JYoung6180@aol.com >Sent: Wed 8/30/2006 11:07 AM >To: jaws64@comlinkusa.net; boards-admins@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: [BAd] What's the Point of the Classification Feature? > > >In a message dated 8/30/2006 1:54:30 PM Eastern Standard Time, >jaws64@comlinkusa.net writes: > >If the name of the classification was simply changed to "volunteers" it >would create misclassified posts. > >I have a prolific lookup volunteer on one board who posts everything she >finds on an individual in one message - one week she made 27 posts of lookup >information, but her average is 10-12 *per week*. As you can see, I use this >classification frequently and would be opposed to **ANY** change whatsoever. > >Jackie > > > >There was talk during board testing sometime back about renaming this >classification LOOKUP REQUESTS but I'm not exactly sure what that classification >would encompass either--requests for lookups in specific publications and >resources I think. I still feel those are better left as queries because that is >what they are. > >Joan > >------------------------------- >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 ---- Msg sent via Lightning Jack Webmail - http://www.nex-tech.com/

Jackie, Clearly there is more than one opinion on what LOOKUP means. I always thought, and several others concurred, that LOOKUP was reserved for those who were offering to do lookups for others from some source available to them. In other words, this would be BEFORE any lookup was ever done. Joan has a different interpretation which you have quoted below. Teri's interpretation is probably more in line with what I thought to be the case. -- Mary On Thu, 31 Aug 2006, Jackie Wilson Goddard wrote: > Teri, > > I truly beg to differ. As Joan said in an earlier post in this thread (to be specific: > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/BOARDS-ADMINS/2006-08/1156871165 ) > "LOOKUP has a limited usage for replies to queries that quote data from a variety of sources." > > 1. These posts are "replies to queries". > 2. They "quote data". > 3. The data is from "a variety of sources". > > If LOOKUP is not "the results of doing lookups", what is your definition? > > Jackie