Not all replies result in a flood of emails as happened this weekend. I guess we all need to consider the value of a reply to the list. For instance, could someone else learn something from it? (I, for one, was very interested in the recent discussion on conscription and language.) And say someone requests information about a person. If that reply is not sent to the list, how does someone else know that the question has already been answered? Why should 5 or 10 people take the time to look up the same information that the person has already received? This was a very unusual occurrence, and I don't really see that it should affect the way that we have always communicated with each other. Susan ----- Original Message ----- From: <BikerJudy@aol.com> To: <germany-passenger-lists@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2006 10:25 PM Subject: Re: [G-P-L] [GERMANY-PASSENGER-LISTS] Conscription comment > The reason we need to reply individually is when one is on vacation and > comes home after 6 days and I find over 400 emails from the germany > passenger > list and german list it is a bit overwhelming. Susan, this is why folks > should > reply to the individual the question was met for. I also had over 50 in > my > spam folder. > I do not want the maps and for the 100 who did reply it should have gone > to > the person who has them and not to the whole list. If there is a website > that all would be concerned with fine. > I really was not pleased. > > Judy Hill > If anyone has names for a Cornelssen, Dorschlag, Albrecht, Langpaap, > Baumann, or such please contact. Delete button worked great. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > GERMANY-PASSENGER-LISTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >