John Right now you can only send 1 message to Anonymous. You're stuck until they accept. In the new system you cannot send a message to Anonymous - that system is going away (I say good riddance). Soon you will only see Public Matches. And, as I understand it, you'll keep all old Shared Genomes, and any new ones will only be with folks who agree to share with any Match. So we will no longer need to beg (aka invite) Matches to Share Genomes (again good riddance). It should be like FTDNA, for those who opt in. I'm looking forward to it. I'm looking forward to one click on FI:A to get all my "IBD" segments. My hope is that they'll include a date in that spreadsheet so we can easily cull out the ones we already have. Their next big BINGO would be Triangulated Groups. I think 23andMe really is trying to cater to the genealogy side! I give them a BZ (Navy flags for well done). Jim - www.segmentology.org > On Nov 5, 2015, at 1:54 PM, jlerch1 via <genealogy-dna@rootsweb.com> wrote: > > Ok, I'll believe that. But can someone point to a quote which says > specifically that that's the use of the phrase that the coding team > know they're supposed to be using? I mean they don't say Anonymous > matches can't send or receive emails from those with whom they're still > Anonymous. They say Anonymous Matches can't send or receive emails > period. IOW the coding team may be using 1 setting from the profile > when your definition seems to be from somewhere else (i.e. I'm not sure > if I could recognize your definition from any of the queries in the > Profile setting page.) > > On Thu, 05 Nov 2015 11:07:40 -0600 (CST), Jim Bartlett wrote: > > John, > > Once someone accepts an invite, they are no longer Anonymous to you, so > they should remain on your RDNA list, and still be available in FI:A. > > > > Jim Bartlett > > On 11/05/15, jlerch1 via wrote: > Can someone say definitively, what happens to matches of ours who have > accepted our Invite but continue to be Anonymous to the rest of their > matches. The way I read 23's description, they're going to be all > reverted to Anonymous and deleted from our lists.  IOW are they > 1) going to look at each person's DNA Relatives list and delete all > non-Sharing Anonymous matches' listings or 2)are they going to look at > each person's listing and see if he makes himself Anonymous to all > non-Sharers and deletes him pr even 3) makes himself Anonymous some > other way? If 2) or 3) is the case, my estimation is that I'm going > to go from more than 700 Sharers to about 100. If 1) I'll stay at > ~700. 23's language says I'm going to have only ~100 Sharers > left. IOW all our letters we're sending to Anonymous listers is > futile since they're not going to be looking at our individual list to > see who's anonymous still. Evidence for that opinion is: They say > Anonymous persons will no longer be able to send or receive emails; > they DON'T say no longer be able to send or receive emails to/from > non-Sharers. >