Hello Clarke / Clark cousins... Let's do the & etc. first: 1. Virus warnings are off topic. No exceptions. Violators will be put on the reject list and their postings will be moderated. Send any to list manager CLARKE-admin@rootsweb.com 2. Subject lines: the digest form has a reminder ++ Please, customize your subject lines. ++ this applies to all messages L or D form. To see the importance of a good subject line, check the list archives at http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/clarke ~ or ~ http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/clark Replying to the Board messages: We have had a few examples of messages you will be seeing from the boards, and yes, some of them do look like questions only, the person is usually resoponding to an earlier post. Here's help trying to figure this out. I would like to give you two links to post a response to these messages, you may want to bookmark them. They will appear as taglines in our messages. Note the E / no E. ==== CLARKE Mailing List ==== Boards > Surnames > Clarke - post a topic below, defaults to the list! http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=board&r=rw&p=surnames.clarke Query, Bible, Bio, B, Cem, Cen, D, Deed, Imm, Lkup, Mar, Mil, Obit, Pen, Will ~ or ~ ==== CLARKE Mailing List ==== Boards > Surnames > Clark - post a topic below, defaults to the list! http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=board&r=rw&p=surnames.clark Query, Bible, Bio, B, Cem, Cen, D, Deed, Imm, Lkup, Mar, Mil, Obit, Pen, Will Anything coming from the CLARK list will only have the tagline ==== CLARK Mailing List ==== CLARKE list is the main list ~ post Queries to CLARKE-L@rootsweb.com Please subscribe to CLARKE list at CLARKE-L-request@rootsweb.com Please unsubscribe the CLARK list at CLARK-L-request@rootsweb.com Until RootsWeb programmers can get some "bugs" fixed, there will not be a link in the messages coming from the boards. About the only way to tell where it is coming from will be to look in your email program and click on "Properties" - usually found under File. Click on it and it will reviel something that looks like the header below. You will see Sender: gc-gateway@rootsweb.com Messages coming from our own list do not have gc-gateway in the header. The only other way is to check the website and see if it was posted there. They are working hard at getting this fixed, just didn't want anyone to miss a connection! EXAMPLE - you will see something like this... X-Original-Sender: xxxxx@xxx.com From: xxxxx@xxx.com Old-To: CLARKE-L@rootsweb.com Sender: gc-gateway@rootsweb.com <<<<< this tells you it is comming from the Boards and a copy has defaulted to the list. ALL postings to the Clark board default to the CLARK email list, which is moderated, they will appear on the CLARKE email list and show as [CLARKE][CLARK] so you will know that they came from the Clark Board not the Clark email list. I want to reasure you that if you are a member of the CLARKE list you will see all postings to the following: Clarke list, Clarke board, Clark board. Clark board can only default to the Clark list, it's corresponding list. The Clark list is moderated and postings default to me, the list manager and I follow up by getting these folks subbed to the CLAKRE list. So, we have - [CLARKE] = comes from the Clarke list to the Clarke list. [CLARKE] = comes from the Clarke Board to the Clarke list. [CLARK] = comes from the Clark Board to the Clark list - subscribers get duplicates. [CLARKE][CLARK] = comes from the Clark Board via the Clark list to the Clarke list. Okay, if you've read this far - kudos to you! Please remember, I am here to aid you in your searches, anything you need to ask privately, do so at the email address below. Thanks for your contiued support and understanding, Sue Downhill, List Manager, CLARKE / CLARK surname CLARKE-admin@rootsweb.com