Hi everyone, A few short notes tonite on the Fay mailing list and website: 1. The genconnect Fay messages will now be reposted to this mail list per the following announcement from genconnect. That should be helpful. 2. Cyndi's List has recently listed the Fay website on their large list of genealogical websites. Perhaps we'll have some visitors from her site. 3. The Surname Ring, an organization with rather stringent requirements, has recently added the Fay website to its ring. If you are researching other surnames, you might want to check with them as they list only "comprehensive" surname websites with research areas. Just click on the Surname Ring logo on the bottom of the homepage for the Fay website, http://www.fayfamily.org 4. Due to annoying ongoing problems with personal notes being posted to the list, the "reply to" default setting used by rootsweb has recently been changed to be the sender rather than the list. This is in accordance with a recently issued advisory from rootsweb. In all cases though, the "reply to" address used by your email program, if it has one, overrides the default setting at rootsweb. 5. This mailing list continues to grow slowly and now has 152 subscribers. If you know of someone that would like to subscribe to this list, please have them send me a note at madgrad77@hotmail.com. Everyone is of course welcome. 6. If you haven't had a chance to post a note on your research interests or would just like to say hello, just take a moment and send it to Fay-L@rootsweb.com. Contrary to popular opinion, you do not need to be done with your research or be an "expert" to post. Everyone is welcome to post. 7. Comments, criticsms and suggestions on either the mail list or website are always welcome and can be either posted here or sent to me (madgrad77@hotmail.com) or to Linda Fay Kaufman, webmaster. Hope everyone enjoys this nice spring weekend, Bob Fay List Administrator ********************************************************************** ----Original Message Follows---- From: Tim Pierce <twp@rootsweb.com> To: listowners-announce@rootsweb.com Subject: GenConnect & Mailing List Gateways Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 19:31:50 -0500 Hi, folks -- You asked for it -- here it is! GenConnect boards can now be "gatewayed" to mailing lists. When a board is gatewayed to a mailing list, every message posted to the GenConnect board will be forwarded to the corresponding mailing list. The message sent to the list will contain the URL of the specific post to allow the list subscribers to respond directly to the message. In this manner, gatewaying will enable more effective communication between the mailing lists and the GC boards. Here's how it works. In order to establish a gateway, two things need to happen: 1. The mailing list administrator needs to add `gc-gateway@rootsweb.com' to their accept list. 2. The GC Board administrator needs to activate the gateway, using the Change Page at http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/signup/change.html. If the GC Board administrator activates the gateway but `gc-gateway@rootsweb.com' hasn't been added to your accept list, then GC posts will try to send posts to your list, but they will be tagged "{not a subscriber}" and bounced to you. This is important; GC admins should *not* try to activate the gateway without first checking with the corresponding mailing list admin. Note: many "Cluster" mailing lists have gc-gateway@rootsweb.com added to the accept list by default when the list is created. List admins for these lists who do not wish to allow gatewaying should remove this address from their accept list. For International and Special Boards, the mailing list manager should first tell the GenConnect staff which mailing list should be used for the gateway. To do that, use the Gateway Request Form: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/cgi-bin/gateway_request.cgi A Gateway FAQ Board has been set up for any other questions not answered here: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/genbbs.cgi/AdminCenter/gateway?admin Enjoy, and keep doing good genealogy! -- Regards, Tim Pierce RootsWeb.com lead system admonsterator and Chief Hacking Officer ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com