Okay, folks, mailing lists . . . There are 2 ways to get this list LIST - each and every message DIGEST - a group A version in plain text, all the msgs in one email on your screen B version in MIME encoding, each post is an attachment Depending on the list, you MAY have to ask the list admin to put you on one or the other. New Brunswick defaults to the plain text version, so you have to ask me for the MIME version. newbrunswick-admin@rootsweb.com?SUBEJCT=MIME encoding version please Headers . . . bounce in the return address... Cleadie just covered briefly . . . it depends on your email software program how you see things... compact or expanded. Check your tools/preferences and how you can fine-tune your software. Outlook & Outlook express do not allow much tweaking, but Thunderbird, Eudora, Pegasus & Pine do. So you may want to consider changing the software you use to handle your emails. Ditch your Reply to All" button off your tool bar. Mailman, the new software being used by rootsweb to manage it's lists, only allows you to put 8 email addresses in a message, or it will reject your message. Creating a post to more than 1 mailing list, causes havoc for list admins. Let's say you write a message to 3 lists. Someone on list #2 decides to respond, but they are not a member of lists #1 & #3. They click Reply to All, and their post gets rejected by Lists #1 & List #3. Now list admins #1 & #3 have to go and deal with the rejected/bounced message. If it's been a while since you joined a list, you might want to check out Mailing List 101 http://db.tidbits.com/index.php?tbart=05386 List Etiquette at http://www.ualberta.ca/~pletendr/list-net.html Internet Etiquette at http://www.albion.com/netiquette/book/index.html Rootsweb also hosts different Support Groups and you can find that list at http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/RootsWeb_Support/ Anytime you have questions about the list and the way it operates feel free to drop me a note OFF LIST at newbrunswick-admin@rootsweb.com Now, back to the topic of New Brunswick genealogy................. There's a site called Canada Roots and this weekend they have offering ancestry.ca free for 3 days, no credit card required. http://www.canadaroots.com .Marilyn, List Admin ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Carolyn wrote: > Can you tell me the difference between the types of lists. I like lists that > have all the separate queries enclosed as attachments - Is it Digest?? Is > that still available? Much easier to read no pages of text - and manage - > easier to delete non-interest items - > >

Thank you so much for this discussion - probably read it all years ago and didn't check out when things changed - Just time issues - I am home sick and just have too much time on my hands - Haha -----Original Message----- From: newbrunswick-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:newbrunswick-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of List Admin Sent: Friday, February 16, 2007 9:25 AM To: newbrunswick@rootsweb.com Subject: [ NB ] Mailing List Tutorial Okay, folks, mailing lists . . . There are 2 ways to get this list LIST - each and every message DIGEST - a group A version in plain text, all the msgs in one email on your screen B version in MIME encoding, each post is an attachment Depending on the list, you MAY have to ask the list admin to put you on one or the other. New Brunswick defaults to the plain text version, so you have to ask me for the MIME version. newbrunswick-admin@rootsweb.com?SUBEJCT=MIME encoding version please Headers . . . bounce in the return address... Cleadie just covered briefly . . . it depends on your email software program how you see things... compact or expanded. Check your tools/preferences and how you can fine-tune your software. Outlook & Outlook express do not allow much tweaking, but Thunderbird, Eudora, Pegasus & Pine do. So you may want to consider changing the software you use to handle your emails. Ditch your Reply to All" button off your tool bar. Mailman, the new software being used by rootsweb to manage it's lists, only allows you to put 8 email addresses in a message, or it will reject your message. Creating a post to more than 1 mailing list, causes havoc for list admins. Let's say you write a message to 3 lists. Someone on list #2 decides to respond, but they are not a member of lists #1 & #3. They click Reply to All, and their post gets rejected by Lists #1 & List #3. Now list admins #1 & #3 have to go and deal with the rejected/bounced message. If it's been a while since you joined a list, you might want to check out Mailing List 101 http://db.tidbits.com/index.php?tbart=05386 List Etiquette at http://www.ualberta.ca/~pletendr/list-net.html Internet Etiquette at http://www.albion.com/netiquette/book/index.html Rootsweb also hosts different Support Groups and you can find that list at http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/RootsWeb_Support/ Anytime you have questions about the list and the way it operates feel free to drop me a note OFF LIST at newbrunswick-admin@rootsweb.com Now, back to the topic of New Brunswick genealogy................. There's a site called Canada Roots and this weekend they have offering ancestry.ca free for 3 days, no credit card required. http://www.canadaroots.com .Marilyn, List Admin ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Carolyn wrote: > Can you tell me the difference between the types of lists. I like lists that > have all the separate queries enclosed as attachments - Is it Digest?? Is > that still available? Much easier to read no pages of text - and manage - > easier to delete non-interest items - > > ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NEWBRUNSWICK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message