----- Original Message ----- From: "Kathleen Burnett" <kathleenburnett@earthlink.net> To: <DEKENT-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2002 4:47 PM Subject: [DEKENT] From List Mom - 4th Quarterly Report 2001 > Dear List Members: > > The Holiday Season is over and I am back home again. I want to > thank each of you for helping to keep our list running smoothly while I > was spending Christmas with three of my children and their > families in Delaware and Maryland. I had a wonderful time but came down > the flu the day after Christmas which turned in to pneumonia so my week > away from you turned into over two weeks. I am doing better, still weak > and coughing but on the road to better heath. > > One other problem while I was away, I had downloaded a huge amount > messages on my laptop while in Delaware and my laptop crashed. If you > tried to send me a personal message from the 23rd to the 30th of > December, I lost it and you will need to re-send. > > It is time again for your last Quarterly Report for 2001 as to the > membership of the DEKENT Mailing List and additional items of interest. > > The DEKENT Mailing List has 89 members, 61 of these are subscribed to > the Regular List and 28 to the Digest List. > > If you would like to visit the archived messages you may go to > http://searches2.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl and type in > DEKENT. From there you can search by keyword. > > There is a great Rootsweb site you can go to if you want to find out > what Rootsweb lists you are a member of or need to unsubscribe > from a list, just follow the instructions. > http://passwordcentral.rootsweb.com/ > > I want to thank each of you for continuing to help make this list the > success it is. I also want to thank you for your support of me and > your willingness to follow the list rules. I have been a List Mom now > since 1997 and truly feel I have the best List Members out there who > have subscribed to the Mailing Lists I take care of for Rootsweb. > > Just a reminder so this list is better for each of us the posting of > virus warnings, test messages, chain letters, political > announcements, current events, items for sale, personal messages, > flames, etc. (in other words - spam) is NOT ALLOWED and will be > grounds for removal. Consideration for exceptions, contact me at > KathleenBurnett@earthlink.net > > There are a few items I would like to suggest for the benefit of each of > us. > > 1. If someone posts a message to the list that should not have > been posted, please just delete it. Know that I am taking care of > the problem. If you post your unhappiness, then you just continue > on the problem. I know it is hard when your heart has been > offended, but for my sake, and the sake of the list, please just > delete it. Rootsweb has a wonderful Spam Detective and it stops most of > it. You should see what comes across my screen. I have to look at each > of them to make sure that what was stopped was truly spam. Once in a > while, one slips by though and if this happens, just delete it and go on > with what we all love, > genealogical research. > > 2. If you would put the subject of your posting in the subject line it > might give you a better chance to attract the attention of someone who > has the information you are looking for or the attention of > someone who is searching for the information you are posting. > > 3. Please remember to delete the tags and un-needed words when > you re-send a message to the list with your answer. If you don't > check this, your responses can become quite large and may cause > problems with some of our member's servers. This member who > might not be able to receive your message because of its size, just > might be your long lost second cousin with all the answers you are > looking for. > > 4. The wonderful relationship that develops between list members is > also one of a Mailing Lists Problems. I encourage you to respond to > the entire list with genealogical responses, you never know who > your response will help. In the same thought I would like to ask you to > not respond to the entire list with personal responses. Such as > the first message from a member says Says "Happy Birthday Joan" > and then Joan says "Thank you" and then about 60 of our members > also send "Happy Birthday Joan". This is what I mean by personal > messages. Just keep in mind anything is ok to be posted as long as > it has to do with the subject of the list. If you have a doubt ask > me. KathleenBurnett@earthlink.net > > 5. Please keep your Virus Scan updated as often as possible. If by > chance one of our members unknowingly sends out a virus, please let me > take care of it behind the scenes. Know that if you received it, I most > likely did also. If you are concerned that I am not aware of the > effected system, contact me personally > KathleenBurnett@earthlink.net Please do not post to the entire list > the name and e-mail address of the person you feel has the virus. > > If you are interested in knowing about other mailing list out there, > one of the very best inventories of genealogical mailing lists is John > Fuller's Genealogy Resources on the Internet located at > http://www.rootsweb.com/~jfuller/gen_mail.html > > > I wish for each of you a success in the year 2002 with your most > difficult genealogical mystery. > > Kathleen Burnett > List Mom > KathleenBurnett@earthlink.net > > > > ==== DEKENT Mailing List ==== > If you wish to subscribe to or unsubscribe from the DEKENT list, use > DEKENT-l-request@rootsweb.com. > If your Ancestors Migrated to or through Delaware - register them on the Delaware > Migration Page http://demigration.homestead.com/Delaware.html > Delaware-Cemeteries page http://Delaware_Cemeteries.homestead.com/index.html > To learn more about my world visit http://dwp.bigplanet.com/kburnett > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >