Hi Tim The gateway has worked the way it does for many years. It's not a conspiracy by RootsWeb or Ancestry and no one is trying to kill off the lists. The gateways are opened by agreement from both the message board administrator and the matching list administrator so that list members get not only the benefit of subscribing to a list but are also abe to see the messages posted on the board without having to constantly check the board. I *think* the gateway is only one way to prevent an infinite loop of messages going around from list to board to list to board . . . . If you have further questions or comments, the Help Desk (http://rootsweb.custhelp.com) should be able to help you. Kind regards, Lynne list admin. -----Original Message----- > >I wonder why not? Why is the conversation only one way? Are Rootsweb >trying to kill off the mailing lists? Or is it Ancestry that is trying >to kill them off? > >This issue should be raised withoever makes the policies on Rootsweb or >on Ancestry as a two-way gateway is perfectly easy, as is shown in the >gateway between the Rootsweb mailing lists and the Newsgroups for (at >least) Medieval and British genealogy. > >regards, > >-- >Tim Powys-Lybbe tim@powys.org > for a miscellany of bygones: http://powys.org/

On 3 Jan at 22:13, Lynne <lklein@mindspring.com> wrote: > Hi Tim > > The gateway has worked the way it does for many years. It's not a > conspiracy by RootsWeb or Ancestry and no one is trying to kill off > the lists. I'm sorry but this is a deliberate act to exclude list members from direct communication with comments from the message board. > The gateways are opened by agreement from both the message > board administrator and the matching list administrator so that list > members get not only the benefit of subscribing to a list but are also > abe to see the messages posted on the board without having to > constantly check the board. Why was it made a one-way traffic in that direction only? > I *think* the gateway is only one way to prevent an infinite loop of > messages going around from list to board to list to board . . . . Regrettably this is not the case. I mentioned that the gateway between the soc.genealogy.britain newsgroup and the GENBRIT mailing list because this has been working to my certain knowledge in both directions for around 15 years and maybe more. The technology to do this without setting up loops was known when the message board was set up. So why did someone deliberately ignore it then? And why, knowing this to be the case, do the message board administrators and the matching list administrators not try to put a stop to this refusal to implement old and reliable technology. > If you have further questions or comments, the Help Desk > (http://rootsweb.custhelp.com) should be able to help you. And I think the list and message board administrators should be asking the Help Desk what is going on. -- Tim Powys-Lybbe tim@powys.org for a miscellany of bygones: http://powys.org/