Hilda, I just wanted to put my two cents worth in... I am also a member of the list that was sent the porn message. When irate members responded, the sender got their E-mail address from the response which led to further mailings. I just used my "Delete" key. I appreciate your effort to monitor this list - now we can get down to what we are here for - genealogy! Thank you! Ann Cardwell > -----Original Message----- > From: Hilda [mailto:hkin@mindspring.com] > Sent: Friday, September 11, 1998 6:20 PM > To: GATROUP-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [GATROUP-L] Explanation > > > Let me try to explain to you what I am doing. > > As I have said before, I am a member of several boards. GATROUP > is very dear to me and I don't want what happend on one of the > boards I am on to happen to this one or to any of you. > > First of all let me say Rootsweb stops most spam messages before > they ever get to the list. They have a program which detects > this type of mail and usually stops it before it gets through. > Everytime someone joins this board I get a message telling me > they just subscribed or unsubscribed and they are automatically > added to the list. My closing the subscription list means when > that message comes to me I have to go in the owners file and add > them to the list. One board I am on does this, and then he/sends > a message to the board announcing this person has joined, and > everyone on the board welcomes them. But before he does that he > sends this person a special message asking them How they are > connected, and to give him the basics. Boy did I mess up I gave > him my great great great as my great. He wrote back and ask me > if I enjoyed my birthday cards from the president, and did I > possibly make a mistake. > > > It makes the new member feel that they have joined a great list, > and they are > very comfortable from the beginning, and jump right in. This is > a surname list so it's a little bit differnet in the fact that we > are all looking for the same name. > > What brought me to make this decision is another board that I was > on, we are not even sure who the list owner is. People join and > leave very quickly. Some people are very rude to the others when > they do post. The other night someone posted a porno post which > was very offensive. When you know who is on the list they are > not likely to do this type of thing. > > Sometimes when people post, people ask for money before they send > them the information, when the person sends it they never get the > information. That's one reason its a good idea to direct your > post to the board and share the information the first couple of > times. I am a strong beliver that it Jane Doe makes a special > trip to the library or archives and spends a couple of hours > looking up Aunt Ethel and Uncle Homer, and offers to mail you the > documents that you should offer to reimburse her for postage and > copies. I believe you join the Genealogy Society in the area you > are searching. (I will post a good reason why on this later). I > have already joined four societies and the Troup County Historic > Society is next on my list. Although I can't attend the meeting, > at least my membership hopefully will help support the research > fund. If you place a post on this list and someone asks for > money, please let me know immediately. > > When you are searching a site and you find someone who is looking > for someone in Troup County, invite that person to join the list. > The way we do this is > Hey everyone while at the library or archives, I met this person > and they are looking for Aunt Gertrude, she lived in West Point > in 1890, I told her about our group and she would love to be a > member her email address is. I will send her a personal > invitation or add her to the list immediately. I want us to grow > into one of the biggest and best list on rootsweb. > > I am going to leave it up to you, If you want me to keep it open I will, > There are only a few people who have not identified themselves and my > question is why are they here? > > PLEASE PLEASE DROP ME A LINE TO LET ME KNOW HOW YOU FEEL some of > you already > have. This should mean we have 52 post to read. I will go with > the majority so please post to the board. > > Two more things. I missed Suzanne's post, would someone please > resend it to the board. Let's give Carole a big THANKS along > with your post for all those look ups she has been doing. > > Thanks Hilda > > > > > > ==== GATROUP Mailing List ==== > List archives - http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl >