Listowners on a couple of lists I'm on, sent a message to the list the need to register with the software at Rootsweb. I question the need for subscribers of the list to register since this blurb at the bottom of the post says this: You are receiving this email because you have registered with RootsWeb Mailing Lists. Manage your email preferences at: https://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/postorius/accounts/subscriptions/ So if a user is already getting email from the list, why register? It seems the only reason to register is to manage one's email preferences - which are likely only if one is receiving list mail and prefers digest mode or vice versa. Since the notes below that also tell someone how to unsubscrbe or how to contact the list manager if one has issues, again negates the need to register. ================= A listowner who is not on this list wondered why his list went from 1000+ subscribers to 0? I can't answer that for him so I'm sending along the message from 4/4 - documentation that you and your subscribers might find useful in hopes that this will assist this listowner. Another person wrote me and asked why the lists were down again. After a little research, and seeing posts to this list coming through, I looked at the list in question to see when the last post was made and it was in mid-March - which is true of some of my lists as well. So today they sent me a post they had sent on 4/3 to the list which does not show up in the list archives. In return I asked them if they were the listmaster and if not that they should contact the list manager to see why / if the message was being held - because otherwise I wasn't sure what to tell them. Tim Stowell

I think there are lots of reasons to register for power users. For people who merely subscribe to a list or two, it is not *necessary* and we shouldn't tell them so. On the other hand, if they are registered and have verified email accounts, we can eliminate that reason for possible problems. So I urge even casual users to register, but tell them that they will continue to recieve list mail as long as their email account accepts it, no matter what. Valorie On Sun, Apr 8, 2018 at 12:03 PM, Timothy Stowell <[email protected]> wrote: > Listowners on a couple of lists I'm on, sent a message to the list the need > to register with the software at Rootsweb. > > I question the need for subscribers of the list to register since this > blurb at the bottom of the post says this: > > You are receiving this email because you have registered with RootsWeb > Mailing Lists. Manage your email preferences at: > https://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/postorius/accounts/subscriptions/ > > So if a user is already getting email from the list, why register? > > It seems the only reason to register is to manage one's email preferences - > which are likely only if one is receiving list mail and prefers digest mode > or vice versa. Since the notes below that also tell someone how to > unsubscrbe or how to contact the list manager if one has issues, again > negates the need to register. > > ================= > A listowner who is not on this list wondered why his list went from 1000+ > subscribers to 0? I can't answer that for him so I'm sending along the > message from 4/4 - documentation that you and your subscribers might find > useful in hopes that this will assist this listowner. > > Another person wrote me and asked why the lists were down again. After a > little research, and seeing posts to this list coming through, I looked at > the list in question to see when the last post was made and it was in > mid-March - which is true of some of my lists as well. So today they sent > me a post they had sent on 4/3 to the list which does not show up in the > list archives. In return I asked them if they were the listmaster and if > not that they should contact the list manager to see why / if the message > was being held - because otherwise I wasn't sure what to tell them. > > Tim Stowell -- http://about.me/valoriez