Hello "Genie": What's the meaning of this line:: > Message-ID: <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> It looks to me like you have information about me and my computer that you didn't get from this mailing list and should not have as a list member. You don't represent Ancestry.com, I suppose? By the way, I _have been bombarded with spam the past few weeks. Sam ----- Original Message ----- From: "GENIE RAGAN" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, December 15, 2006 12:18 PM Subject: Re: [MDGARRET] Ancestry contact info > Sam, > In regard to your question about "why would I want to contact this person if I didn't want him to know who I was is > beyond me.". I have an answer for you. > You may want to have the person know who you are, BUT do not want to be on their personal email list so that you start > getting jokes etc. from them. It may be you only want to have contact with them regarding the submitted information. > Also, much to my dismay, I found that "Spammers" take email addys from places like forums etc. and then you are on the > Spammers list, and boy will you be sorry. > You can always contact the person, add your name and email addy to the message if you want them to have it, and not > worry about others getting the email address and name. This, I have found, works very well. > Though this may not alter your opinion of Ancestry. com, I hope it helps you in understanding the contact practice. > > > Genie > Editor by Default > www.OurBrickWalls.com<http://www.ourbrickwalls.com/> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 06:21:54 -0500 > From: "Sam Bowser" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> > Subject: [MDGARRET] Ancestry.com > To: <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> > Message-ID: <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > I think there was some discussion a while back regarding Ancestry.com which I no longer have in my mailbox. > > Someone had posted a message I think regarding information they'd found in a family tree submitted to Ancestry by a > "Roberds" or something similar. > > I think I stumbled on the same submission last evening. What I found was information I know to be erroneous. There was > a box to contact the submitter. I clicked on the box and a prewritten email came up that said in replying to the > submitter, I could be assured that my identity would not be revealed. Now why would I want to contact this person if I > didn't want him to know who I was is beyond me. > > ====================================== > Looking for your Garrett County ancestors? Make sure to visit us on the web at: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~mdgarret/index.html > ------------------------------------ > If you need help with this list, make sure to email the list administrator, Sonny O'Haver, [email protected] > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >