Joan, I've sat back for a while while you laud the concept of just "discarding" anything that doesn't suit you, and can't help wondering why you are a list administrator at all. I admin many lists which vary from very slow to relatively busy. There are many aspects to being an admin, and I try to do each justice. Welcoming new members, being sure I respond quickly to queries, publishing a list etiquette fact sheet, monitoring the messages, processing incorrectly addressed messages, dealing with the "pending" list and anything else that may come along. I regard each of these as an integral part of the job. They say any job worth doing is worth doing well. I just can't see how this is achieved if any of us decide we won't do certain aspects because it doesn't suit us. Regards, Ian MARR at 38° 24' 01.299" S by 142° 34' 11.9094" E; 11m above sea level This message can be considered to be in the public domain. The home of SW Victorian Cemetery indexes: http://home.vicnet.net.au/~marr/ Allansford Weather (10 min updates): http://home.vicnet.net.au/~marr/Weather/ Remember, to EVERY question in life, there is MORE than ONE correct answer. ----- Original Message ----- From: <JYoung6180@aol.com> To: <pleblan@aim.com>; <listpig@earthlink.net>; <listowners@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2012 8:38 AM Subject: Re: [LO] ADMIN NOTE: >I never saw anyone say they didn't want to "work" or respond to legitimate > admin messages --- only that they were sick of receiving SPAM at their > admin addresses. Pending requests are another matter entirely. No one > should > be writing TO the request address with anything other than commands to > subscribe or unsubscribe...it isn't a place for communicating with the > admin. > That is one reason I have those emails discarded. > > Joan > > > In a message dated 7/31/2012 6:32:17 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, > pleblan@aim.com writes: > > Pig > Yes Thank you I went right back on. It was a general question because the > discussion had got to the point where people did not want to work pending > or -Admin messages. > unfortunately I could not resubscribe to about 20 other lists. > I have as today got back to all of them except one. > Paul > > > > ------------------------------- > 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

Thank you, Ian ... you expressed it far better than I did a day ago or so ... PSW ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ian Marr" <ian_marr@bigpond.net.au> To: <listowners@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2012 5:33 PM Subject: Re: [LO] ADMIN NOTE: > Joan, > > I've sat back for a while while you laud the concept of just "discarding" > anything that doesn't suit you, and can't help wondering why you are a > list > administrator at all. > > I admin many lists which vary from very slow to relatively busy. There > are > many aspects to being an admin, and I try to do each justice. Welcoming > new > members, being sure I respond quickly to queries, publishing a list > etiquette fact sheet, monitoring the messages, processing incorrectly > addressed messages, dealing with the "pending" list and anything else that > may come along. I regard each of these as an integral part of the job. > > They say any job worth doing is worth doing well. I just can't see how > this > is achieved if any of us decide we won't do certain aspects because it > doesn't suit us. > > Regards, > Ian MARR > at 38° 24' 01.299" S by 142° 34' 11.9094" E; 11m above sea level > > This message can be considered to be in the public domain. > > The home of SW Victorian Cemetery indexes: > http://home.vicnet.net.au/~marr/ > Allansford Weather (10 min updates): > http://home.vicnet.net.au/~marr/Weather/ > Remember, to EVERY question in life, there is MORE than ONE correct > answer. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <JYoung6180@aol.com> > To: <pleblan@aim.com>; <listpig@earthlink.net>; <listowners@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2012 8:38 AM > Subject: Re: [LO] ADMIN NOTE: > > >><snip>