Thanks Susan, It's neither here nor there but I did mention some posts got deleted or moved. I did forget to mention the spam ones though so thank you for reminding me of that. Jan -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Susan Gowen Sent: Monday, September 04, 2006 8:58 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [CGW] Help .. did I miss something? Jan~ You are correct except...you said that once a message is gatewayed from the Message Board to the Mail List it "DOES NOT get deleted from the message boards". That is not true. The same "rules" as you have already mentioned still apply. For example if a message made it through that is Spam or inappropriate it would be deleted from the Board. As well, a message can still be moved to another, more appropriate board by the board admin or Rootsweb staff even after it have gatwayed to the mail list. Stella~ I am not sure why message board posts that you are trying to respond to are being deleted. As Jan has mentioned, it could be that they were not posted on the correct board and moved. If you find this is happening for no apparent reason, forward me the message you are replying to and I will see if I can find out the problem. Have a good day, Susan~List admin ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jan Buker" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, September 03, 2006 10:01 PM Subject: Re: [CGW] Help .. did I miss something? > To my knowledge RootsWeb/Ancestry have always kept a separate set of > Boards > from Genealogy.com. The Ancestry boards can be gatewayed to the RootsWeb > lists if the names are identical however, the Genealogy.com boards are not > gatewayed. RootsWeb/Ancestry is also administrated by volunteers while > Genealogy.com is not administrated at all. The only way a > RootsWeb/Ancestry > board message would be deleted is if the person who wrote it deleted it or > if the admin deleted it or perhaps moved it to a more appropriate board. > If > the admin did it then it was because it was either not appropriate to that > particular board or it violate the board rules and was deleted. > > Any gatewayed messages to the mailing lists are a one-way enterprise. It > appears on the list but if a list person wishes to respond they must go to > the boards to do so. Once a message is gatewayed it DOES NOT get deleted > from the message boards. > > Genealogy.com is SEPARATE from Ancestry as far as mailing lists and boards > are concerned but they are run by the same company. > > I hope I cleared up your questions. > > Jan Buker > Board & List Admin for many. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Stella Stanger > Sent: Sunday, September 03, 2006 5:38 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [CGW] Help .. did I miss something? > > > Hi. I just checked the site: > http://www.genealogy.com/index_r.html > and was able to find - my family surname. > > Rootsweb has gone under some changes - don't know if it affects the above. > BUT > More Message Boards - are now Gatewayed to relevant Rootsweb Mail Lists - > > This has created a problem - for me. > > People post their messages to Message Boards - they may not be / may > not want to be - subscribed to a mail list. - are only interested in > their own - research. > > Some of these - Message Boards - are now Gatewayed to the Relevant > Rootsweb Mail Lists - > The result - is that the original message is deleted from the message > board site. Making it difficult for people like me - who do try to > assist others - to respond to the original message .- Not being a > subscriber to the new lists - our messages will not go through. > As well - from what I have experienced - the original posting - also > does not seem to appear - at the Rootsweb Mail List - since the > person posting - is not a subscriber - > The Result - as far as I can see - - No Message - No Response - Lost > Messages. > One in Particular - cannot be contacted via their e mail address. > > Perhaps a Glitch in the system. > Cheers, Stella > **************************************** Posting address for this list: [email protected] **************************************** ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message