In message <[email protected]>, John Slann <[email protected]> writes >Dear Allan, > >I have been looking at this page: > >http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/cgi/list-synd.pl?reader=0 > >Having opened the door to new transcribers a week ago and not yet >getting one, I am intrigued by the order of the syndicates listed. We >are currently 18th in the pecking order of 19. My memory tells me we >were higher than that when I checked the page a week ago. Surely, when a recruiting syndicate accepts a new member it then moves down to the bottom of the list. Actually, having just refreshed the list several times, the order changes every time. >There seems to be contradictory advice on the page as in different >places it says: > 1.. Please choose the first Syndicate on the list unless there is >something in the description that precludes you > 2.. Please choose where you want to help >It also seems strange that a page that is supposed to be dedicated to >recruitment includes syndicates with this message: > >" New Syndicate - Not Yet Accepting Volunteers" I would imagine that is for newly created syndicates so that they are in position when they open their doors. -- Philip Powell Looking north across the Derwent Valley and Northumberland to The Cheviot