Hi, Wayne, I have added your name to the list. I plan to wait about a week and check with everyone to see if filtering has made a difference. Please let me know what you think about this idea. Vivian At 11:14 AM 1/17/2005 -0600, you wrote: >Thank you for all of the consideration you have given to this subject! >I believe your decision is a positive move in the right directon and I >most definately would like to subscribe to the new "business" list. > >Wayne Dorough >Glascock County GAGenWeb >http://www.rootsweb.com/~gaglasco/ > >Michael and Vivian Saffold wrote: > >>Hello, everyone, >> >>First I want to apologize for not responding to the current thread >>quicker. I had a long-standing family outing planned yesterday afternoon. >> >>We have 98 members of this project. Just as in any other family, we are >>all different individuals, with different points of view, preferences, >>thoughts and feelings. The fact that we're different does not make anyone >>right or wrong, just different. That's just human nature. However, we >>have more in common than other people. We are all members of the unique >>family called GAGenWeb. >> >>I must say that I appreciate the courteous way in which this discussion >>has been conducted. Thanks, too, for the many constructive ideas. >> >>I certainly understand that "chatty" email can be time-consuming, >>especially for those who work from home. I work from home, but have a >>system in place for segregating email that needs an immediate response >>from correspondence that can wait. However, I can understand how being >>able to put non-urgent email into a separate folder could be beneficial. >> >>I have heard from 34 of you, enough, I think to make a decision on this >>issue. >> >>Of that number, 23 prefer one list, 7 want two lists, 3 had no opinion >>and 1 prefers "no chat." >> >>Of the 23 who prefer one list, most said that "chit-chat" was a valuable >>part of the project, promoting a sense of "community" and "family." >> >>**I must point out that not one person has said that chat was a bad >>thing. The suggestion of a different way to manage email should not be >>interpreted as a personal affront to anyone. Likewise, the posting of >>baby announcements and such violated no rule and certainly is not wrong.** >> >>Please understand that all of you, your babies, grandbabies and great >>grandbabies, parents, siblings, puppies and kitties, your "day jobs" and >>all the events in your lives are important. These relationships and >>events help make us who we are. *Who we are* is what makes us -- every >>single one of us -- vital to our counties and to this project. >> >>I would like to continue operating GAGen-L like it is. It will remain the >>official and archived list. However, I will create another mailing list >>for those of you who would like to be able to segregate strictly business >>correspondence from all other project email. I will create this list on >>my own computer. Only my posts and forwards from the national project >>will be included on this list. >> >>Please let me know if you would like to be subscribed to the alternate >>list. If we see down the road that the arrangement is not working, we can >>always make changes. >> >>Thanks, all of you, for your constructive input. >> >>Vivian >> >> >>==== GAGEN Mailing List ==== >>Confused about Copyrights? Review USGenWeb's policy on copyrights at: >> http://www.usgenweb.org/volunteers/copyright.html >> >> > > >-- >No virus found in this outgoing message. >Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. >Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.6.13 - Release Date: 1/16/2005 > > >==== GAGEN Mailing List ==== >Confused about Copyrights? Review USGenWeb's policy on copyrights at: > http://www.usgenweb.org/volunteers/copyright.html