Hello Betty: I also have had my messages bounce when giving a site address. I think it's the www prefix that sets up the link, thus alerting the powers that be that a commercial site is being advertised. Try google.com only, without www. I hope it works for you. Barbara, Dearborn Michigan -----Original Message----- >From: Betty <bbffrrpp@comcast.net> >Sent: Oct 8, 2009 6:42 AM >To: can-usa-migration@rootsweb.com >Subject: [CAN-USA-MIG] Discussion about the Message Boards > >Hello, > >Because I am the Administrator for this List, I can mention a problem with >the Message Boards at RootsWeb. > >This week I have experienced the 2nd or 3rd time that I have posted a >response to a query on a Message Board, and the Admin of that Board wrote >to tell me she had "deleted" my posting ! (Same Admin 3 times during >past year or so !) > >I wrote to ask why. She told me that an employee of the R.W. Help Desk >Administrator's office had noticed that I had mentioned a Google / Book >in my posting. It seems there is a law on the books that people cannot >mention "commercial web sites" on the Message Boards. And the >"administration people" decided that www.google.com is a "commercial web >site" and it cannot be mentioned on the Message Boards. > >I immediately e-mailed the Message Board Help Desk and complained. I >explained in a quiet, intelligent way that "Google" is not a bad word ! >And that Google is very important to on-line researchers, and that "free" >on-line books - thousands available through Google - are extremely >important to researchers ! > >The "boss" e-mailed back and did not answer my questions. He just offered >a page of "Community Guidelines" and "How to be an Administrator." > >I don't know if he is the same "boss" for the Mailing Lists, but the "boss" >for the Lists (with same name) usually answers my questions and concerns. > >What is frustrating to me is that many times I spend 20 minutes early in the >morning looking for answers to a query on a Message Board, and I post the >information and offer census information, etc. And, then a "Board Admin" >immediately "deletes" what I wrote. When I type something onto a Board -- >I cannot retrieve it ! > >I thought if other people wrote to the Message Board Help Desk and explained >how important www.google.com is to on-line researchers, and genealogists >in general, the "administration" will take more notice of the problem ! > >www.rootsweb.com > > >Betty (near Lowell, MA, USA) > >List Administrator > > >P.S. I'm still thinking about creating a Message Board to go along with >this List. But the more I learn about how Boards are administered, I >don't like it. > >Researchers have already reminded me that the "boss" of www.rootsweb.com >IS www.ancestry.com which IS "a commercial web site." > >As someone said, "the pot calling the kettle black." > > > > When you want to respond to a query or comment posted on this List, I find it MUCH easier to post a new message -- remembering to include the SUBJECT from the post you are responding to !! Please make sure there is a SURNAME or place-name in the Subject. > >To search the archives: >http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search?path=CAN-USA-MIGRATION >The information page is: >http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Immigration/CAN-USA-MIGRATION.html > > > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to CAN-USA-MIGRATION-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ******************************* Always a Detroit Tiger!