DAN, YOU ARE AN INCONSIDERATE IDIOT. I AM NOT SHOUTING. IF I WERE I WOULD USE 100 POINT TYPE. BOB ----- Original Message ----- From: "aardq" <aardq@usol.com> To: <MI-GENEALOGY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 2:32 PM Subject: [MI-Genealogy] Proper use of subject line and private e-mails. > > > Hello everyone, > > I for one, am sick and tired about all the e-mails about this woman's > lack of knowledge on e-mail etiquette. A couple of e-mails is one > thing, but a lot of people insist on beating this dead horse. ENOUGH! > (and that is shouting!) > > Now on to the subject of this e-mail, which is subject lines. It's > there so that the rest of us know what the e-mail is about. When you > change the topic or the name of the person being researched, then please > have the common courtesy to place e the new info into the subject line. > Today day alone I have received over a dozen e-mail with the subject, > "Looking for help with Barnes". Not one of those e-mail had anything to > do with Barnes, or for that matter, any kind of search. They were all > about the use of capitols in e-mails. > > It's both frustrating and a waste of time (on the part of a lot of > people) to keep repeating the same subject over and over and over. When > you do this, you are misleading the people that may actually want to > help with research instead of talking about the manners or kindness of > other people. By doing this, you show your lack of consideration for the > hundreds (or thousands) of people that receive these e-mails. Please, > put the correct subject matter in the subject line. > > If you wish to ask a specific person a question, or thank a specific > person, then please do so, but do it in a private e-mail, not in a > general posting to the forum. Again you being inconsiderate of the > others on the forum, and you create a lot of extra e-mails for others to > deal with. > > It's true that a lot of people on forum are not computer geeks, and > now one holds that against them, but they should be able to find someone > to teach them the basics. If you're not a cook, would you try to make a > cake without asking someone, or getting the info out of a cookbook? > Then why would you start using forums and e-mail without learning the > basics? > > It all boils down to having consideration for the others in the forums. > > Dan > > > ==== MI-GENEALOGY Mailing List ==== > MIGenWeb. Michigan Genealogy. > http://www.rootsweb.com/~migenweb/ > Locate resources, browse counties, search and contribute to special > projects. > > ============================== > Find your ancestors in the Birth, Marriage and Death Records. > New content added every business day. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13964/rd.ashx > > > > > -- > Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.5.7 - Release Date: 3/1/2005 > > -- Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.5.7 - Release Date: 3/1/2005