I agree totally with you Robin. It is unsolicited requests for money via e-mail. Personally, I could probably maintain my three lists by making them moderated without solicitation of funds, but many others may not have the werewithal to do likewise. There are a few bells and whistles I like with the present setup. Dwayne Crandall listmogul CRAIN, CLARY, & CRANDALL ______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________ Subject: RE: Sponsor : It is Excessive Author: listowners@rootsweb.com at internet-ext Date: 9/3/97 11:49 AM Just a reminder.....that would be 4 more times per annum than I would have seen at the Maiser. What you describe is unwelcomed email to me; it is commercial, it will be identical in each mailing, it would go to hundreds of people 4 times per year. For most of them it would be unwelcomed, otherwise they would have "contributed". Had such a message come from anywhere else, it would be hailed as SPAM on this list. But SPAM does not come from Brian. As simple as it is to exclude or include list owners from your mailing, kindly allow each of us who request to be excluded not to be SPAMMED by you because you are "thoroughly committed....freely accessible to everyone". Otherwise, be up front and require my paying a list ownership Robin O. Bishop Founder/President of the Saints at FHUnion Nonmember Listowner at Rootsweb Formerly a Member of Maiser ________________ > The net result is that nonmember RootsWeb users would see 4 pieces of > e-mail from us each year. Does anyone think that that's an excessive > amount of e-mail for us to direct to nonmember users? > > BTW, RootsWeb remains thoroughly committed to the notion that > virtually all our facilities should be freely accessible to everyone, > regardless of their ability or willingness to contribute to the > operation of the site. Cheers, B. > > > -- > Dr. Brian Leverich Co-moderator, soc.genealogy.methods/GENMTD-L > RootsWeb Genealogical Data Cooperative http://www.rootsweb.com/ > P.O. Box 6798, Frazier Park, CA 93222-6798 leverich@rootsweb.com > > ______________________________ >