I agree with Catherine. This deluge of email will be a temporary situation. I am on this mailing list in the hopes of finding a hurdle over some of the "brick walls" in my research. So, the amount of email I have to read currently from this mailing list may be a small price to pay to gain further information regarding ancestors or possible connections to them. I delete no "roll call" emails without at least opening it to see who the sender is talking about. My program will allow the mail to sit there unopened for 30 days, so I can slowly work my way through all of the "Roll Call" emails. As an aside, another list that I am on has decided to do a "roll call" too ... so I have even more to go through. Carol Potter Meadows a Wayne County, PA native In a message dated 10/21/2006 11:54:09 AM Eastern Standard Time, catgh@msn.com writes: I have not received excessive email from the list. Seems to be about the same. Roll call has been very advantageous, and may have temporarily increased the flow. Catherine Gibson Havemeier >From: "Ann Frederking" <fredrkng@magma.ca> >Reply-To: nydelawa@rootsweb.com >To: nydelawa@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: [NYDELAWA] Are you getting too many List Emails? >Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 11:19:55 -0400 > >I hope this goes through - may not because I'm using my web mail instead of >my regular >mail. But I respectfully disagree with John. As long as the subject is >relevent, I feel >it is much easier to control individual messages than to wade through a >digest, most of >which may not be of interest. I simply delete based on subject. It is also >much easier >to save the few messages that are of special interest if they come >individually. >The key is filtering them to a separate mailbox. > >Ann > > > >On Oct 21, "John H. Beach" <John_H_Beach@compuserve.com> wrote: > > > > Hi All, > > > > Those of you that are getting too many Delaware List emails are probably > > set up on the List as receiving each and every email sent to the List by > > others as separate emails. This can be troublesome if there is a lot of > > activity on the List like it is at the present (which it should be). >Even > > in the Digest mode, I have seen some days where there are 5 or 6 Digest > > messages, but this is rare. This would mean some 50 or 60 separate List > > email messages. Ouch!! > > > > I can see how this is overwhelming. To correct this you have to be > > reassign to the List as a Digest List Reader. Under this format the >many > > emails to the List will be placed into one file and sent to you with a > > header like this last Digest as follows: > > > > Today's Topics: > > > > 1. Re: Rollcall - Sprague (Barbara Heard) > > 2. Re: Wheeler Book (CMMEADOWS2@aol.com) > > 3. Re: Roll call-Alexander Gray (SDetweiler@aol.com) > > 4. discontinue from subscribers list (Nan13143@aol.com) > > 5. Re: discontinue from subscribers list (Ann and Bob Frederking) > > 6. Re: discontinue from subscribers list (Robert Bishop) > > 7. Re: Roll Call--WOOD (lindawatsonsmith@aim.com) > > 8. attn: John Aiello Los Angeles (Joan Hantel) > > 9. 35 Identified Photographs, Most From Walton (CaroleeRI@aol.com) > > 10. Re: Roll Call Russell-Chisholm-Winter-Taber (BKSSFISH@aol.com) > > 11. Re: 35 Identified Photographs, Most From Walton > > (Fred & Helene Ballantyne) > > > > Then you can scan down to the one(s) you want to read. Email programs > > handle these Digest emails differently. Some just place the full Digest >on > > the screen to scroll through and other break down each topic as a >separate > > subject to click on. Of course you can still keep receiving the >separate > > emails and if you program has filters you can set it for keywords to >grab > > those emails and place then in one or more email boxes to be read later >and > > the balance will be junked. This is not the best way since the sender >may > > not have the best subject wording for you filter to grab what you are >only > > looking for and you will miss valuable information. > > > > You might have been in Digest mode and with the new changes, you might >have > > been re-assigned to the single List mode. It is not certain why this > > happened, but a few were changed. You can get back to the Digest mode >or > > change you current reader status to Digest mode. It is simple. > > > > To get into the Digest mode (if you are in the Single List mode) you >have > > to unsubscribe: > > > > Send an email to the List to the following address: > > NYDELAWA-L-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > > quotes in the subject and the body of the message. You may or may not >get > > an automatic response to your request. > > > > Then resend another email to the list as follows: > > NYDELAWA-D-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'subscribe' without the > > quotes in the subject and in the body of the message. You may or may >not > > get an automatic response to your request. > > > > After this you should only get one or two Digest emails a day depending >on > > how much List traffic is being handled that day. You should see the >main > > email header like NYDELAWA Digest, Vol 1, Issue 53. The clue is the >word > > Digest. > > > > PLEASE, for those that REPLY to a List message, enter a good description > > for your reply in the Subject Line. If not you will get the only the > > generic List Email Header: NYDELAWA Digest, Vol 1, Issue 53 , which > > really means nothing to the List readers that receive your email. > > > > DO NOT repeat the whole Digest contents, some 10 or more emails Only > > REPLY, QUOTE or CLIP the subject or lines you are responding to, not >the > > full text content in there Digest email. This keeps the long repeating > > subjects, not relevant to your response, out of the next Digest message >and > > therefore your scanning of the Digest will go much faster and the email > > archive storage servers will use up less room. These large Digest >emails > > often are trashed by various email services and you will not get what >you > > are looking for. > > > > Read your Email Help, Options and Preferences to set the REPLY >parameters > > properly to minimize your Reply email size. > > > > Sorry for getting into this subject, but I know there are users that are > > not too familiar with these List operations and it just makes it harder >for > > you and the others to quickly scan the email from these Rootsweb lists > > without the frustrations some of you are venting about. I hope we can > > close this subject for now. Respond to me or Rene off the List with > > private email for further help. > > > > Enjoy the great Delaware List. and Welcome Rene as our new moderator > > administrator. > > > > Kind regards, > > > > John H. Beach > > > > Yonkers, NY > > > > john_h_beach@compuserve.com > > > > Note: The "_" character is the underscore character, NOT a space or >dash. > > October 21, 2006 > > 9:06 am > > > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >NYDELAWA-request@rootsweb.com >with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body >of the message > > > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >NYDELAWA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NYDELAWA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message