Hi David, I am not the list admin for either the list or the message board, Ed Black is, however since I am the admin of the Boulder County GenWeb site and also run several other boards and lists, I think I can probably answer some of your questions. Since I am not the list admin, I can't tell you how many there are on this list. When the message board is "gatewayed" to the list, as is the case with this list and most of the other county lists and boards, all the messages posted on the message board should also posted on the email list. There is no filtering program that weeds out some messages and not others. However, this does not work in the reverse. The messages posted on the list, do not get sent over to the message board. So if you are a member of the list, one of the benefits of belonging to the list is that you do not have to check the message board everyday to see if there are any new postings. The disadvantage is that to reply to a message that has been gatewayed you have to click on the link and manually post to the message board. Just hitting reply in your email program will not let you reply to the actual message, it will only post your reply back to the Boulder list. If the person who posted the message on the message board is not a member of the list then they will not get your response. Clear as mud? <G> One other note, one of the Rootsweb servers was down for about a week about a week ago for repairs. Any messages posted to the board during that time might not have been sent onto this list. To access the archives you can go to the following. You can also find links to the archives on the Boulder County website. Search archives: http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=COBOULDE Browse archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/COBOULDE/ Your last question as to whether or not there has been a "My Interests" call on this list, I don't know, but I think it is a good idea. Pauli Boulder County GenWeb Coordinator http://www.hollyhockfarms.com/coboulder > Hi, > > I'm a little confused about this list and have a few questions. > > 1.I'm no expert at how things are gatewayed from a board but this list seems > to get spotty listings. Can someone explain which messages on the board end > up here. > > 2.Just for general reference who is the listadmin ? > > 3.How many are on this list ? > > 4.Is there a list archives and if so where ? > > 5.Has a "My interests" posting ever been done ? > > Thanks > David Knowles > ps: Carl(e)ton, MacClean, Trimble, Knowles, Marriott, Williams, Dutton, > Stoiber, Birkett, McDonald, Autrey, Andrew, Schaeffer, Stobart, VanArsdale, > Clark, Laughlin, Burt, Cowdery, Grey, Harris - everyone related in some way > to Thomas Carlton who emigrated to Boulder County from Cumberland County, > England about 1877.