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. 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" Can you give any guidance on when the syndicate Mentors can anticipate a new transcriber Cheers John

On Sun, 27 Jun 2004 12:01:47 +0100, you wrote: >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. The list re-orders itself every time it is loaded, and presents the syndicates in an entirely random order. >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 Basically, the advice is choose the first syndicate, unless you have some reason for choosing a different one >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" When a new syndicate is created, it gets set up with that description, and the recruiting flag turned off. When it starts recruiting, the co-ord has to turn the recruiting flag on and change the description. If they don't, you get the results seen. -- Dave Mayall