Re: GREAT NEW SITE TO FIND YOUR ANCESTORS Hello Everyone, After just posting a response that I now realize may have been mis-directed, let me please remind all of us on the list: RootsWeb.com has a business arrangement with Ancestry.com and, as a result, many RootsWeb mailing lists receive "gatewayed" copies of posts to Ancestry.com bulletin boards. This is the "default" behavior, and about a year ago the subscribers to this list unofficialyl voted to maintain this default behavior rather than have me reject the messages by default. At the time that I last asked, the general thinking was that "more was better" and that we as a body of subscribers would be responsible to ourselves to wade through and individually judge the veracity of the messages posted to/from the gatewayed web sites. It is all-too-easy to become confused about the source/topic of information posted to the list ... as I suspect I was just a few minutes ago. :-) Despite my personal confusion, I stand by my previous post: As a computing professional and long-time amateur genealogist, I DO despise both spam and spyware. However, as your list administrator, I also stand by the decision of the body of GATHOMAS list subscribers to allow the gatewayed posts to be forwarded to our mailing list in the event that it might help even one of us to make a new connection or learn something new about the home-places of our ancestors. Still, I must gently remind the body of subscribers that accepting the gatewayed posts offers us the potential for irritation and misinformation as well as the potential for genealogical progress. So whenever a mailing list message says that it is being gatewayed to our mailing list (or is posted in response to such a message), please keep in mind that the original message content comes from someone who is not a fellow list subscriber ... and, well, "caveat emptor." Let me also remind All that we have an *exceptional* group of subscribers here on GATHOMAS -- I wish I could make you understand how good I believe this list is!!! -- and that we all should be careful to look for and consider messages from our subscriber list before those gatewayed from elsewhere. As with any information coming from the online community, please remember to "consider the source." Personally, I highly consider and value information posted here by our fellow listmembers, and often raise an eyebrow at the messages that we read here via gateways ... of course, "Your Mileage May Vary." We, as a body of GATHOMAS Listmembers, previously decided that We are both clever enough and generous enough to filter the messages that appear on our mailing list from external sources. If our previous decision should ever require review, I am sure that YouListFolk will *privately* request that I ask for another public opinion poll, and I hope you trust in me that, given enough requests, I will ask again for your collective opinion. Until then, I'll leave things as they are while reminding myself and everyone else to carefully check the source of messages to the list before even beginning to decide the level of consideration/trust they deserve. Best, Jennifer Jacksonville, FL, USA List Admin: GATHOMAS-L, FLJEFFER-L, FLMADISO-L, ABBOTT-L, STANALAND-L, SPICKARD-L p.s. I am STILL seeking a replacement List Administrator ... if you're interested, please write to me privately ... jennifer@fdn.com ... just think! You could personally reduce the size of random ListAdmin messages by about 300%!!! ;-) If no one volunteers soon, I'll have to put up the list for open adoption. I'd *really* rather that it be taken over by one of our own ... At 10:30 PM 1/9/2004 -0500, you wrote: >I think this is a really SICK thing to do on a list like this? 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