Dolores, I agree with your message. It is very confusing especially to those of us who have been using Rootsweb for YEARS. I have been in Washington, DC at DAR conference for 10 days so I am very late in commenting. Sally Smith ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dol Sol" <dol_sol@hotmail.com> To: <njsalem@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, June 29, 2007 12:07 PM Subject: Re: [NJSALEM] Alliance, NJ area-- 1890--1882 > Margaret, I applaud your thoroughness in attempting to help readers who > may > have relatives buried at Alliance Cem. in Rosenhayn. I had chimed in > briefly myself, as did Andrea, but would like to make it clear that I do > not > have any relatives buried there, myself. I was merely trying to help, > since Steve, the inquirer, appeared to need some "what to do next" > suggestions. > > He has since asked why I found Rootsweb's having both lists and boards by > the same names to be confusing. If a List post "gateways" (repeats) to a > Board by the same name, then both groups can read it. Great! Why not? > > However, if you are only on the List, and innocenty write a reply, it will > only get back to the List members, leaving the author (from the Board) and > most others, thinking no one replied. > > Untill Rootsweb pulls its ostrich-head from the ground on this matter, > even > more confusion will follow. Until then, the small percentage of we who > finally realize this problem, must remember to take time to post on BOTH > the > Jones (or whatever) List AND Jones Board, to reach more readers. > > Rootsweb's other perplexing practice is to offer BOTH "Digest" and daily > messages to subscriber addresses. Digest subscribers get all messages > once > a week instead of daily, which (figure it out!) results in the SAME bytes, > except all at once! I have corresponded with some of them behind the > scenes, and found that they actually think they would LOSE some of the > daily > posts if they don't retrieve their e-mail more than weekly! (I have posts > from more than a year ago saved at my Hotmail address, if anyone still > thinks that's true!) > > Worse yet, please notice that many of the Digest subscribers' responses > still carry the generic "DIGEST" headline, causing the rest of us to > either > trash it immediately or painstakenly read each one, to discover on WHAT > SUBJECT WITHIN the Digest they cared to comment. > > --- Dolores in Del. > > ----Original Message Follows---- > From: "Margaret Munson-Quiles" <memunsonquiles@msn.com> > Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 ((clip -- see her message, plus mine and Steve's)) > I will look for your two surnames to see if I find any info for you. > ((cliip)) > > _________________________________________________________________ > Who's that on the Red Carpet? Play & win glamorous prizes. > http://club.live.com/red_carpet_reveal.aspx?icid=REDCARPET_hotmailtextlink3 > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NJSALEM-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >