The rootsweb address for INGEN-L is NOT the official INGenWeb county coordinators' list. If you are getting email from INGEN-L@rootsweb.com, it is your responsibility to unsubscribe if you don't want to get email addressed to it. The official INGenWeb County coordinators' list is at ingen@ingenweb.org Debby At 04:11 PM 11/23/1999 -0500, you wrote: >Hello INGenWeb, > >Long time, no hear....... until recently. Its been a while since I was the >coordinator for Johnson, Shelby, Dearborn, and Ohio, so I must have gotten back >on somebody's list. > >No offense, but I won't need to be on the active INGenWeb list,so whomever >handles the details needs to take off ddistler@iquest.net. > >Thanks and keep up all the great work...I still like to visit the pages! >Dave Distler >ddistler@iquest.net >http://orvf.com >Ex-Johnson/Shelby/Dearborn/Ohio Counties INGenWeb > > > > > >diane drogich wrote: > >> Tracey, >> >> I think I would send the gentleman a message pointing out the negatives of >> posting personal info about living folks and give him the option of asking >> that the info be deleted. I think if he realizes the danger of doing this, >> he will understand it and do this. >> >> I've had a question that I've wanted to ask about a similar problem with >> postings to the various boards. I've had a lot of people post queries to the >> boards for the obits, bios, etc. When this problem first arose, I wrote up a >> generic sort of message to send to the off-topic posters telling them, >> nicely, that the board was for a certain subject and queries weren't allowed >> but I would be moving their query to the Query board. I also told them there >> was no harm done and I was simply informing them about this so they wouldn't >> wonder what happened to their message. >> >> Of the 5 message I sent out that time, I got 3 replies that weren't very >> nice. One lady wrote to tell me she would certainly remember not to make >> such a horrible mistake in Greene Co., IN, which made me feel awful. I felt >> the message I sent was very polite and a gentle type of reminder. I >> certainly had no intention of making anyone mad. >> >> My question is what do other CCs do with queries posted on other boards? Do >> you simply delete them, move them to the appropriate board and then delete >> them or just ignore them? I've not sent any more messages like this since >> the one I received from the lady I mentioned and try to move them. It's >> become a big job to do that, though, with so many of them being posted >> anymore. Anyone care to share their thoughts? >> >> Diane :) >> Greene Co., INGenWeb CC >> ddrogich@viaduct.custom.net >> http://www.rootsweb.com/~ingreene/greenegw.htm >> Back Home in Indiana >> http://viaduct.custom.net/ddrogich > > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~inmiami/index.html - Miami Co. INGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~incass/county.html - Cass Co. INGenWeb http://www.netusa1.net/~beheler/ -My personal genealogy page http://www.netusa1.net/~beheler/genbiz.html -Genealogical Publications and Services http://www.netusa1.net/~beheler/addlamb.html -My webpublishing business