Hi Listmembers, I expected to see Don post by now to answer some of the questions about the DNA program. He explained to me yesterday that he had been having problems connecting to the net to retrieve his mail, so perhaps that problem continues today. He did subscribe yesterday in 'L' mode, and I have him CC'd here directly to his hotmail acct., just incase that helps. Since I get all the bounces, I received one today with several of our members who have hotmail addresses, which is a red-flag that hotmail is having server problems. The problem hotmail usually reports is the "exceeded space alotment" bounce, which I will always let go in hopes the member will take care of it before the computer bounces them off automatically. I have to manually remove the ones who close the acct, and cause the "No user by that name", but that's not specific to hotmail. It happens with any server. I asked Don about the privace issue, and he assured me they had that taken care of. Without trying to get into his technical explaination, I suggest we wait for him to get back with us on that. Ken ----- Original Message ----- From: "Judy Berck" <jbhere@hotmail.com> To: <MAXWELL-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, August 26, 2002 7:46 AM Subject: Re: [MAXWELL-L] List Activities > To Ken and all: > > Ken, I am very pleased that you and Don have worked out a solution to this > 'problem'. > > For those of us with a brick wall in our family tree, DNA family research > could save us an enormous amount of time and money. > > When you can't find the parents of an ancestor, you have to look at all > possibilities in a given time period and in many places. Not all of us have > the resources to travel all over the country (and world) or to hire > genealogists to help us scale our brick walls, so we search and search -- > kind of like trying to kill a tick with a shotgun -- your research is so > spread out that it is inefficient. > > Yes, I have all of the same concerns about sharing my DNA as the rest of you > do, but at we need to at least be open minded about the possible benefits > vs. the risks and in the process learn more about what is being offered. > > Judy > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com >