I thought I'd pass this along since I know some of you do manage County Message Boards. This a.m. I had a letter from Rootsweb saying that I had an unusually high number of "objections" on the Jones County message board and to please deal with them. I really hadn't a clue what this was about....and then went to the Jones Board in my Administrator mode, and sure enough there is a line at the very top left hand corner "Review Objections". I had 46 objections --- waiting for a decision. (I have since checked my other boards and didn't have any "objections"...so I think someone is just annoyed with the Jones Board). Most of them were in regard to the multiple surnames listed -- which were all the surnames the individual was researching, and most not included within the message itself. It took me a while, but I finally got through all those, editing the surnames appropriately. Each objection has to be considered and a decision made.... my guess is that individuals reading a message, must then "report abuse" and that is how an objection occurs. After this, I'm sure going to watch that board more closely so objections don't stack up. Virginia

Virginia, Were the objections all from Joan Young? I checked my message boards, and Joan Young had posted several objections yesterday. She is the administrator of the message boards. Apparently she is doing some housekeeping. I can't believe she is looking at all the messages on every board. They must have developed a program that is searching the messages for certain types of problems. Most of mine were "irrelevant to the board." I always delete names from the surname list which aren't found in the message, so I didn't have any of those. Dan... ----- Original Message ----- From: Virginia Crilley To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, January 17, 2005 8:48 AM Subject: [GAGEN] Message Board - Objections I thought I'd pass this along since I know some of you do manage County Message Boards. This a.m. I had a letter from Rootsweb saying that I had an unusually high number of "objections" on the Jones County message board and to please deal with them. I really hadn't a clue what this was about....and then went to the Jones Board in my Administrator mode, and sure enough there is a line at the very top left hand corner "Review Objections". I had 46 objections --- waiting for a decision. (I have since checked my other boards and didn't have any "objections"...so I think someone is just annoyed with the Jones Board). Most of them were in regard to the multiple surnames listed -- which were all the surnames the individual was researching, and most not included within the message itself. It took me a while, but I finally got through all those, editing the surnames appropriately. Each objection has to be considered and a decision made.... my guess is that individuals reading a message, must then "report abuse" and that is how an objection occurs. After this, I'm sure going to watch that board more closely so objections don't stack up. Virginia ==== GAGEN Mailing List ==== Confused about Copyrights? Review USGenWeb's policy on copyrights at: http://www.usgenweb.org/volunteers/copyright.html