Rowena, It's lovely that you don't know. I think that means we've come a long ways. Yes, flaming is aggressive, argumentative posting - usually directed at one person. It's a throwback. I haven't updated the administrivia in awhile. Y. > On Mar 9, 2015, at 8:56 PM, cornish-gen-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > > Message: 2 > Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2015 11:11:10 +1100 > From: "Rowena Gough" <rfgough@optusnet.com.au> > Subject: [CORNISH-GEN] Personal Info on the List > To: <cornish-gen@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID: <001101d05ac6$b9d84fd0$2d88ef70$@com.au> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Hi Yvonne, > > A quick question - what is flaming? > > Is that aggressive, argumentative posting? > > Thankyou for the update, > > Rowena > > -----Original Message----- > From: cornish-gen-bounces@rootsweb.com > [mailto:cornish-gen-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Yvonne Bowers via > Sent: Tuesday, 10 March 2015 5:42 AM > To: cornish-gen@rootsweb.com > Subject: [CORNISH-GEN] LISTMOM: Personal Info on the List > > Folks, > > The Rootsweb archives are open to anyone searching so please don't post > anyone's personal snail mail address and/or telephone number on the list > whether or not you have their permission. Replies to any requests must be > made privately. > > As a refresher from our "administrivia" when subscribing (admittedly > generally never seen again once a person has been subscribed): > > > A few quick rules: > > No Flaming > No queries for living persons > No virus warnings, missing children, etc. > No commercial posts which includes Ebay > No political, religious or other topical commentary except how it DIRECTLY > relates to Cornish genealogy. > > Thank you. > > > *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* > Yvonne Bowers > Listmom/Webmom > CORNISH, CORNISH-GEN, CA-CORNISH > <ybowers@gmail.com> > http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~yvonne/cornishlib/cornishlib.htm > Yvonne's Rootsweb Resource Page > http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~yvonne/