Nelda- Apparently staff thinks this is "spam" as they have been removing the posts from the archives of many lists where it has been posted. Think of the poor overworked search engine...if you search on Cumberland Gap and get 40,000 hits and all of them are the SAME message it is a bit TOO much and it makes it difficult to find any OTHER posts concerning this topic. As to the question about didn't many of us have ancestors who came through the Cumberland Gap...that would be turning ALL lists into catch-all lists for any and all topics because well, maybe it might just have something to do with the subject. I have a very nice and helpful poster on several of my Pennsylvania county lists who I keep on moderated status because his area of expertise is the Scotch-Irish and he doesn't see anything "wrong" or "off-topic" about posting tons of messages about Ireland with NOTHING mentioning the counties in PA. His argument is....well, many Scotch-Irish settlers settled in these counties. TRUE...but the posts are not about THEM -- the posts are exclusively about Northern Ireland. You can also imagine how I get posts on my USA General message board that don't belong there---that are about a surname (with no mention of location) or which state that the person lived in a specific state and/or county/town. Sure...technically the people involved may have lived in the USA but the posts are mostly much more relevant to a specific locality board or surname board. If we allow messages on our lists and boards that perhaps just maybe might be somehow related to our subject no matter where else they may have also posted the message (cross-posted/mass posted) we'd have people posting anywhere and everywhere...sheer chaos. Take care and fight that flu bug. Joan In a message dated 2/14/2013 12:08:13 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, nelda_percival@hotmail.com writes: So Sorry, I should have added in about mass postings. What is so wrong about being efficient? Most of us are busy with family or jobs or??? So you give yourself a half hour to get what you consider relevant information about genealogy out to as many lists as possible. MASS MAILINGS if it isn't spam I see no problem with that either. Personally, I think "WE" admins get way to into ourselves, Yes I know I just raised a hornet's nest... but is a mailing list there for YOUR convince or to put out as much data as possible on a specific part of genealogy. I have the flue so probably should comment on all this, but it is how I feel.. A mailing list does not belong to you, it is there for you to guide just like raising a child, you don't control it, you nurture it. Out of 10 people you would be lucky to find two unrelated individuals who have the exactly the same ideas and goals for a mailing list. End of my two cents I'm going back to bed to nurse this horrible headache and cough. Nelda Nelda L. Percival – Helping with something I believe in: http://www.AWAbosnia.org ; http://inmemoryofvucko.org Please visit our online shop in aid of Bosnia's animals at http://awabosnia.org/shop ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to LISTOWNERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hi Joan, Thanks.. Now to make that post relevant to say a surname board or list... I'd have to do a census search find that surname in the census that covers the Gap and then talk about the name and the Gap jamboree?? Or lets say, I quote a book as stating such and such families traveled through the Gap some staying and settleing while others traveled on to (the area of the list/board I'm posting to. So basically the posting could not then be sent to more then one list at a time doing away with both the MASS mailing and the no relevance to the list it was mailed to. So the objection is the lazyness or lack of knowledge of the poster for not making each and every post (although, it holds similar information) have some relevance to the list / board it is sent/posted to.. Where had the poster contacted a list admin to ask the admin, about posting; the admin could have made suggestions as to how each post could be made relevant to each list. got ya! n. Nelda L. Percival – Helping with something I believe in: http://www.AWAbosnia.org ; http://inmemoryofvucko.org Please visit our online shop in aid of Bosnia's animals at http://awabosnia.org/shop From: JYoung6180@aol.com Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2013 13:08:38 -0500 Subject: Re: [LO] Mass Postings on lists... To: nelda_percival@hotmail.com; listowners@rootsweb.com Nelda- Apparently staff thinks this is "spam" as they have been removing the posts from the archives of many lists where it has been posted. Think of the poor overworked search engine...if you search on Cumberland Gap and get 40,000 hits and all of them are the SAME message it is a bit TOO much and it makes it difficult to find any OTHER posts concerning this topic. As to the question about didn't many of us have ancestors who came through the Cumberland Gap...that would be turning ALL lists into catch-all lists for any and all topics because well, maybe it might just have something to do with the subject. I have a very nice and helpful poster on several of my Pennsylvania county lists who I keep on moderated status because his area of expertise is the Scotch-Irish and he doesn't see anything "wrong" or "off-topic" about posting tons of messages about Ireland with NOTHING mentioning the counties in PA. His argument is....well, many Scotch-Irish settlers settled in these counties. TRUE...but the posts are not about THEM -- the posts are exclusively about Northern Ireland. You can also imagine how I get posts on my USA General message board that don't belong there---that are about a surname (with no mention of location) or which state that the person lived in a specific state and/or county/town. Sure...technically the people involved may have lived in the USA but the posts are mostly much more relevant to a specific locality board or surname board. If we allow messages on our lists and boards that perhaps just maybe might be somehow related to our subject no matter where else they may have also posted the message (cross-posted/mass posted) we'd have people posting anywhere and everywhere...sheer chaos. Take care and fight that flu bug. Joan