Hello Charani, Welcome to the Surrey Rootsweb, you are the third List Admin that I have researched with on the Surrey Rootsweb, Steve JONES was the first. Your abbreviation:- >The first is no HTML/RTF what does this mean, I am sure many of us would like to know, it is not an abbreviation that I have come across and I am not a newbie. Kind regards Barbara Lewis Mallyon Basingstoke, Hants. UK BarbaraMallyon@lewmal.co.uk Admin Blind Genealogists Rootsweb Admin Kingsclere Rootsweb Admin Waverley District Rootsweb ----- Original Message ----- From: "Charani" <charani.b@gmail.com> To: <eng-surrey@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2012 1:22 PM Subject: [SRY] Taking the reins > My thanks to Ann for her care of the list in the past and also for > handing the Admin reins over to me. > > Some of you already know me; for some of you, I'm an unknown > quantity. > For those who don't already know: I'm a Londoner and I've been > researching for nearly half a century (and that's a scary thought!). > I have family connections in almost every county in England plus > some > in Wales, Scotland, Ireland, several European countries as well as > North and South America and Australasia. At last count there were > 10 > different religions, faiths and denominations within the family. I > admin a number of county, area and surname lists. I don't bite, at > least not often :)) > > Inevitably there will be some changes but I think they will be > relatively minor. Ann and I run our lists in a similar fashion. > > There are two Rootsweb rules I enforce: The first is no HTML/RTF. > Apart from enlarging messages considerably and being used to pass > viruses, not everyone has broadband. Large messages can be costly > to > download for anyone uses a dial-up or mobile connection. > > The other one is no requests for or about living or potentially > living > people, please. Not everyone shares our love of genealogy and > family > history. The best way to find out more is to not upset newly found > cousins. Please keep requests and queries pre-WWI. > > The only other rules are stay on topic please and no crossposting. > The latter is when one mail is sent to a number of lists and/or > private addresses. Not everyone will be on the same lists as the > sender and some recipients may not be on any lists. If it's > necessary > to send the same message to other lists, copy and paste of the body > of > the mail into a fresh one. > > -- > Charani (UK) > OPC for Walton, Ashcott, Shapwick, > Greinton and Clutton, SOM > http://wsom-opc.org.uk

On Sun, 14 Oct 2012 14:52:01 +0100 "Barbara Mallyon" <BarbaraMallyon@lewmal.co.uk> wrote: Hello Barbara, > >The first is no HTML/RTF what does this mean, I am sure many of us >would like to know, it is not an abbreviation that I have come across >and I am not a newbie. HTML; HyperText Markup Language - Designed for web page markup, but used by most email packages to "pretty up" the content. RTF; Rich Text Format - Used by some word processors to save styles, etc. RootsWeb routinely strip such stuff, but it's as well to know that trying to use either is a waste of time and energy. -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is / _)rad never immediately apparent" People stare like they've seen a ghost Titanic (My Over) Reaction - 999

Hello Brad, Thanks for the explanation, I have never seen a smiling face or any email tarted up, I don't think Rootsweb would let that sort of message to get through their security system. >Rootsweb routinely strip such stuff, but it's as well to know that > trying to use either is a waste of time and energy. Yes I agree with you on this. I am not a boffin on the computer, just emails and Microsoft word, there are many researchers like me, so please give an explanation if you use abbreviations, so we don't have to ask what they mean. Many thanks. Kind regards Barbara Lewis Mallyon Basingstoke, Hants. UK BarbaraMallyon@lewmal.co.uk n in Original Message ----- From: "Brad Rogers" <brad@fineby.me.uk> To: <eng-surrey@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2012 3:58 PM Subject: Re: [SRY] Taking the reins > On Sun, 14 Oct 2012 14:52:01 +0100 > "Barbara Mallyon" <BarbaraMallyon@lewmal.co.uk> wrote: > > Hello Barbara, > >> >The first is no HTML/RTF what does this mean, I am sure many of us >>would like to know, it is not an abbreviation that I have come >>across >>and I am not a newbie. > > HTML; HyperText Markup Language - Designed for web page markup, but > used > by most email packages to "pretty up" the content. > > RTF; Rich Text Format - Used by some word processors to save styles, > etc. > > RootsWeb routinely strip such stuff, but it's as well to know that > trying to use either is a waste of time and energy. > > -- > Regards _ > / ) "The blindingly obvious is > / _)rad never immediately apparent" > People stare like they've seen a ghost > Titanic (My Over) Reaction - 999

Hello Charani, Welcome to the Surrey Rootsweb list, may all you days be happy. Barbara asked "no HTML/RTF what does this mean" It means that Rootsweb will NOT accept email in HTML or RTF (Rich Text Format) don't ask me to explain why (As a List Admin myself I never checked) but you should set your email package to default to PLAIN TEXT Kind regards John P Laws Registrar LAWS FAMILY REGISTER Putting Flesh on the Bones of History List Owner LAW & LAWS-UK Member of Guild of One-Name Studies since 1984 PS Is there anyone wanting to take over the LAW@Rootsweb List? . ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ENG-SURREY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message