To change your email address on the list, I believe you want to first unsubscribe with the address you don't want to use. Send 'unsubscribe' while using that email address and you will be automatically unsubscribed. The list will send an automatic reply to that email address that you are unsubscribed to confirm that's what you really want to do. Put unsubscribe in the subject line and make unsubscribe the only word in the text of the message. No other words, no quotes, no name or automatic signature. You should fairly quickly get a confirmation as to the unsubscribe. Next, subscribe using the other email address. Put the word subscribe in the subject line and make subscribe the only word in the message. The automated process will send a confirmation note to that email address that you just used. Having said all that - I believe there is a way also to change over your past queries so that if people a year or two down the road want to respond to it they will see the yahoo or other internet based email address. I've never done that myself. I'm pretty sure there is info on that at www.rootsweb.com. In fact there is quite a bit of good basic hints and tips about genealogy at that site. If you change your email address without changing old postings you've made to the list then you've stranded those queries/messages. I think I have some really old ones myself from past email addresses but I've been on Hotmail for years now. Hope this helps - Russ Sprague Kensington, Maryland From: <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] To: <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [NYJEFFER] Consider using a free internet based email account Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 16:41:23 -0800 How do we change it on this Jefferson surname list, I too have a Yahoo addy. Rose ----- Original Message ----- From: "Russell Sprague" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 12:00 PM Subject: [NYJEFFER] Consider using a free internet based email account > I've suggested that every now and then on the St. Lawrence county list. > You > might get a response to a genealogy query years down the road from someone > trying to use an email account you no longer have. > > That's a major reason I use hotmail. I've switched ISP's about 3 times > since starting with hotmail but never had to ask anyone to change me in > their address books and did not miss any genealogy messages. > > The major internet based services are also handy when you travel. You can > access your account from any pc with internet access (ex. from a public > library). It's the same as accessing any website like the nytimes or > rootsweb. > > You can still save emails and attachments to your pc hard drive if you > want > - but that leads to a whole other discussion of 'it's not if your hard > drive > will crash but when'. We can save that for another time. > > Russ Sprague > Kensington, Maryland > > > From: Steve and Maggy Wilcox <[email protected]> > Reply-To: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [NYJEFFER] Address corrections > Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 10:56:33 -0800 > > I'd like to suggest to all listers that if they don't already have an > email account with one of the big guys, such a Yahoo or Hotmail or > Gmail, that they sign up for a free email account with one of them. Use > that email for lists on the Internet. Of course, it would be a good > idea if the lister would check that email account at least once a week. > When the lister changes his/her local ISP, the big guy account will > always be available. I opened a Yahoo account over ten years ago and > have moved to two other states during that time, but my Yahoo email > stays with me until Yahoo goes out of business! > > Maggy > > Nan Dixon wrote: > > Listers, > > > > I guess I need your sympathy. In attempting to send out this message, I > left out the meat of the problem. A very helpful viewer sent this to me: > > > > While using the Jefferson County Surnames List - A-D, I attempted to > contact the following people and here are the results: > > > > Name = Bell > > > > Paula Ligoci 27 Feb 1999 - email address of [email protected] is no > longer valid > > > > Name = Dorr > > Sue Hinton - email address of [email protected] is no longer > valid > > > > If anyone knows the correct addresses, would you please send them to me > so that I may contact these persons and ascertain that they really want > these surnames posted? > > > > Nan Dixon [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 > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------- > 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 > > _________________________________________________________________ > Turn searches into helpful donations. 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