On 2/14/2013 11:58, Nelda Percival wrote: > > So Sorry, I should have added in about mass postings. > > What is so wrong about being efficient? Nelda, if a genealogist is "efficient" enough to subscribe to every county list that is of particular interest to them, and if their family has been in this country a long time and has been fairly mobile....taking my own tree as reasonably typical, they could easily be on 50 or more county lists. That opens them up to getting *fifty* copies of "Genealogy gathering in X county". That's not efficient by anybody's standards. Post it on the universal list - Roots-L. Then maybe the state list and the counties within perhaps 50 miles of the town the gathering will be held in. That's plenty. The folks who will be interested will hear about it. The folks who have never been to that place, aren't going now, and whose kinfolk were never from around there won't have to wade through dozens of times of being told about it. Win-win. --pig

Hi PIG... Good to hear from you. (I'm still very sick from the flue.) You know as well as I do that this happens every so often. I have always wondered why there isn't a section to addressed this type of posting on rootsweb. Maybe, even a letter that goes out to the societies/groups that might would / could organize such a get together... it might even cover reunion notifications. Tell the person HOW to address different mailing lists / boards; with the same basic information. That each communication needs to have information pertinent to that list in it. Then they could address the basic notification. The people who do this, do not want to upset anyone; they are excited and feel everyone will want to know about the event. Cumberland Gap: how many different states are involved, TN,KY, VA those states should have had individual messages then each county that was primarily effected by the 200,000 to 300,000 migrants passed through the gap on their way into Kentucky and the Ohio Valley before 1810. EVEN if the poster kept sent notices to what I'd call important to the project that is one heck of a LOT of lists. So how does one get a notice out to everyone? If a section on rootsweb addressed this we might not have this happen so often and when it first starts if the admin of the effected list could address the poster with a link showing how to properly do this type of mailing then it should eventually end. Now, to your statement. Efficiency.... it is no ones fault you are a member of fifty lists, so you get fifty different types of this message you know how to delete. That should not make you angry or upset... So the poster changes the subject line every 5 mailing lists.. and has some part of the message that is pertaint to that list, it is still the same basic notification. AND I would not want to post a notification of an event to a mailing list just for notifications.. not many would go read it...BUT if rootsweb had a place on the home page.. JUST THE WORDS - EVENT NOTIFICATIONS - (each state app.) that linked to a page that talked about the event, then the poster would not need to send to every list (except maybe to the list admin telling them about it asking them to note it to the list) . EVENT NOTIFICATIONS Cumberland Gap Washington Texas You know the Ancestry staff that would have to approve something like this... 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 > Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2013 18:32:48 -0500 > From: listpig@earthlink.net > To: > Subject: Re: [LO] Mass Postings on lists... > > On 2/14/2013 11:58, Nelda Percival wrote: > > > > So Sorry, I should have added in about mass postings. > > > > What is so wrong about being efficient? > > Nelda, if a genealogist is "efficient" enough to subscribe to every > county list that is of particular interest to them, and if their family > has been in this country a long time and has been fairly > mobile....taking my own tree as reasonably typical, they could easily be > on 50 or more county lists. > > That opens them up to getting *fifty* copies of "Genealogy gathering in > X county". > > That's not efficient by anybody's standards. > > Post it on the universal list - Roots-L. Then maybe the state list and > the counties within perhaps 50 miles of the town the gathering will be > held in. > > That's plenty. The folks who will be interested will hear about it. > The folks who have never been to that place, aren't going now, and whose > kinfolk were never from around there won't have to wade through dozens > of times of being told about it. > > Win-win. > > --pig > > ------------------------------- > 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