Jan, I am using a cell phone so I can't right now go explore to show you where you edit your profile or change your preference to give people your email address. If someone could lead Jan thru this, I would appreciate it. Even the wifi here at a campground in Maine won't let me do anything so on a wing with the cell phone. Gloria At 12:47 PM 6/5/2009, you wrote: >You ladies are going to have to pick me up by the shoulders on this one. I >don't use the message boards as often as I would like, but I like to know >when another "control" is added to our daily lives. There are too many now >and more projected I'm afraid. I read Gloria's message 3 times and while I >get the general drift, I am a Model T when it comes to Tweet, Twitter and >their cousins. Is there a way to explain what is happening in lay terms? >Change my email addy? Ancestry is always 'harvesting' something--which >they turn around and sell. Jan in California ----- Original Message ----- >From: <LRFArnold@aol.com> To: <ilmacoup@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, June >05, 2009 8:56 AM Subject: Re: [ILMACOUP] ancestry email system >I ditto >your comments! I just went to my Ancestry.com account and changed > my >preferences to allow my E-mail address. > > Ancestry.com must have >recently automatically restricted E-mail addresses > because I mine had >always been available as far I knew until you called > attention to >it. > > Thanks for the heads up. > > Linda R.F. Arnold > >_LRFArnold@AOL.com_ (mailto:LRFArnold@AOL.com) > > Menifee, >California > > > > > > > Quoted from Cindy Birk Conley, cc White County >ILGenWeb: > > "The Overstreet mailing list is having a fuss over a new >feature ancestry > has added to make it harder to email other folks, so I >checked it out > and sent the following message to my White County list >members: > > Listmembers, > > Ancestry has recently added another >restriction on their message boards. > If you want to directly email >someone who has posted to a message board > you will likely get a message >that the person has CHOSEN to only use > ancestry's email system, which >makes it hard for anyone who does not > have an ancestry subscription. >Ancestry seems to have made this choice > for everyone. > > However, if >you would like to be contacted directly or off the message > board, you >can edit your profile or change your preference to give > people your >email addy, although it is shown as a graphic to keep spam > robots from >grabbing it. > > I would suggest you make the change. I went ahead and >added a public > profile, since I am the board administrator. These >public profiles seem > to be an attempt to morph ancestry into a >social networking website. I'm > certainly more interested in finding >the immigration record of Robert > Savage than going to Twitter >or Facebook. > > Cindy" > > Check out Macoupin County ILGenWeb page at > >http://www.macoupinctygenealogy.org/. > ------------------------------- > >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > >ILMACOUP-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > >quotes in the subject and > the body of the message > > > >**************We found the real âHotel Californiaâ and the >âSeinfeldâ > diner. What will you find? Explore WhereItsAt.com. > >(http://www.whereitsat.com/#/music/all-spots/355/47.796964/-66.374711/2/Youve-Found-Where-Its-At?ncid=eml > > cntnew00000007) > > Check out Macoupin County ILGenWeb page at > >http://www.macoupinctygenealogy.org/. > ------------------------------- > >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > >ILMACOUP-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > >quotes in the subject and the body of the message Check out Macoupin >County ILGenWeb page at http://www.macoupinctygenealogy.org/. >------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send >an email to ILMACOUP-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' >without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message