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