I don't really care one way or another but just wanted to share what happened on another list I am on. Someone had sent a request via the list for the location of a certain place in Georgia. Well it caught my eye cause it was where my hubby's ancestors are from. Well as it turns out the person doing the request is a cousin and I would never had met her had she not sent her name(which was at that time one that I did not have in the tree) and location request to the list. I myself have no problem using my delete button and believe me I do--between my business and genealogy I probably get close to 1500 emails a day. The only thing I would like to see stressed is to put the proper subject in subject line. That really helps when you are deleting a lot of unnecessary mail. So I guess there are pros and cons to this subject. I would say the final say so comes from the listowner??? It is a beautiful evening--reach out and grab a piece of it Helen ----- Original Message ----- From: Meredith MaGuirk <im52ioblu@hotmail.com> To: <GA-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, July 17, 2000 10:23 PM Subject: [GA-Roots] lookups > > hi all! It is awesome that we have such a wonderful fellow researcher like > Dee that is willing to share her plethora of resources with us, but it is > not necessary for all of us to receive your requests for lookups. Please be > thoughtful and send requests to her personal e-mail account, not just > clicking on the "reply: icon and sending all of us the note. It is a quite > a task to wade through all the messages when especially they're not for our > eyes, but for Sue's. Please correct me if I'm the only one that feels this > way, if so, I'll keep on wading. Happy Hunting, meredith > ________________________________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com >

Amen, Helen!!! I wish everyone would just put about a 5 second thought to that subject line, especially folks replying to a message in a digest. It could be WAY more helpful than it is. I never have understood how anyone could think "Digest #xxxx" is a helpful subject. Congratulations on running into a new cousin. Catching that note borders on the miraculous in my book. Aloha, Bev in Alabama, USA :) <alohabev@bigfoot.com> ..:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*reply*separator*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:. At 10:35 PM 7/17/00 -0700, glswings wrote: >I don't really care one way or another but just wanted to share what >happened on another list I am on. Someone had sent a request via the list >for the location of a certain place in Georgia. Well it caught my eye cause >it was where my hubby's ancestors are from. Well as it turns out the person >doing the request is a cousin and I would never had met her had she not >sent her name(which was at that time one that I did not have in the tree) >and location request to the list. I myself have no problem using my delete >button and believe me I do--between my business and genealogy I probably get >close to 1500 emails a day. The only thing I would like to see stressed is >to put the proper subject in subject line. That really helps when you are >deleting a lot of unnecessary mail. >So I guess there are pros and cons to this subject. I would say the final >say so comes from the listowner??? >It is a beautiful evening--reach out and grab a piece of it >Helen >----- Original Message ----- >From: Meredith MaGuirk <im52ioblu@hotmail.com> >To: <GA-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com> >Sent: Monday, July 17, 2000 10:23 PM >Subject: [GA-Roots] lookups > > > > > > hi all! It is awesome that we have such a wonderful fellow researcher >like > > Dee that is willing to share her plethora of resources with us, but it is > > not necessary for all of us to receive your requests for lookups. Please >be > > thoughtful and send requests to her personal e-mail account, not just > > clicking on the "reply: icon and sending all of us the note. It is a >quite > > a task to wade through all the messages when especially they're not for >our > > eyes, but for Sue's. Please correct me if I'm the only one that feels >this > > way, if so, I'll keep on wading. Happy Hunting, meredith > > ________________________________________________________________________ > > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com > >