Hi Darrell, I have received the following but cant open the web page. can you please tell me what the problem is. Jeanette This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/EEX.2ACIB/806.2 Message Board Post: Grandmother's name was Fannie Trumble-she married John Forbes. Given name was Fannie. L.White ==== FORBES Mailing List ==== * ============================== 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 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Darrell A. Martin" <darrellm@sprynet.com> To: <FORBES-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, October 25, 2002 2:31 AM Subject: [FORBES] From the new list admin - a "must read" message > Greetings: > > I have been entrusted with the RootsWeb mailing list for the FORBES > surname. My deepest condolences to the family and friends of John Brandt; I > was not a personal acquaintance, but his fellow list admins speak very > highly of him. I know he will be missed. In the next few days I will be > browsing through the FORBES-L archives to get a feel for the list and who > some of the active contributors are. I can be reached at either: > > darrellm@sprynet.com > FORBES-admin@rootsweb.com > > I am also the admin for 5 Vermont lists, 1 Massachusetts list, 18 surname > lists, and 1 genealogy web site creation software list. Two of the surname > lists are FORBUSH-L and FURBUSH-L, which (to anyone with a New England > accent who has tried to puzzle out "Forbes" spoken with heavy Scottish > brogue) are obvious spelling variants of the original FORBES. > > A few of you may recognize most of this message (likely the longest one you > will ever get from me). The position is voluntary, with no qualifications > and not many onerous duties. With the conviction that FORBES-L has been and > will be what its members make of it, I intend to administer with a light > touch. You will of course want to know what that *means*: > > 1. Each list has its own look and feel, to which the members become > accustomed. I intend to change nothing without a reason, and if it's > visible to the subscribers I am likely to ask for opinions even then. I > welcome suggestions for improvement. You will note in the next few days, > however, changes to the "taglines" which I hope you find useful and > interesting. > > 2. There are some exceptions to my "light touch" approach. One is > "Rootsweb's Common-Sense Acceptable Use Policy" at: > http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/aup.html > > 3. Besides egregious violations of the AUP, there are two things that will > get you banned from the list without further warning. One is flaming, which > is a personal attack on a fellow subscriber. You may contradict any idea or > statement made on the list, and you may do so as vigorously as you care to; > but you must do so cordially, without becoming personally antagonistic, and > without disrupting the list as a whole. > > 4. The other unacceptable behavior is the posting of virus alerts, scam > alerts, and all such. If you have just discovered proof of the virus which > will end the Internet -- tell ME off list. Let the other list members get > some genealogy done in the last few days left to us. (NOTE: No, the virus > *you* just heard about is NOT an exception!) > > 5. Praise publicly, complain privately. Except to provide evidence > correcting statements of fact, all criticism of others or their messages, > or of how the list is being run, should be sent to me -- privately. Another > exception: if I should happen to say something you *like*, as admin, don't > clutter up the list with the e-mail equivalent of the Parliamentary "Hear, > Hear!" > > 6. The list is about the FORBES surname, and is hosted by the largest and > oldest genealogy site on the 'net. There is a reasonable expectation that > messages will have some connection with FORBES genealogy, history, and > family doings. What that means is for the most part left up to the list > subscribers. Information on related spellings, such as FOWERBESS (which I > just made up), would be welcome. > > 7. An intolerance for irrelevancies and an inability to filter out unneeded > information are not positive traits in genealogists. Please accept slightly > off-topic messages, the opinions of others, expressive signature blocks, > and the like, with good grace; or if you can't manage that, with silence. > > 8. Newbies are my friends. A newbie I haven't met has the key to that > elusive ancestor I have agonized over for decades. Please don't insult or > patronize my friends on this list. > > 9. I am, like most of us, an amateur genealogist with FORBES/FORBUSH > ancestry. You can see information on my oldest (and admittedly quite poorly > documented) FORBES ancestor at: > http://www.darrell-martin.net/genealogy/p2432.htm#i2432 > > 10. I am very pleased that the "reject file" (banned users list) is empty. > I will do everything in my power to keep it that way. > > Darrell > > > RootsWeb List Admin - 5 VT and 1 MA location lists > Darrell A. Martin - 18 surnames lists > darrellm@sprynet.com - 1 software list > > > > ==== FORBES Mailing List ==== > * > > ============================== > 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 > >