[email protected] wrote: > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > NYOSWEGO-D Digest Volume 03 : Issue 131 > > Today's Topics: > #1 mail lists/message boards ["Gordon J. Johnson" <[email protected]] > #2 RE: VANT mailing list created ["TreeWright" <[email protected]] > #3 Re: VANT mailing list created ["liz Parmalee" <[email protected]] > #4 Re: VANT mailing list created [[email protected]] > #5 Identifying [email protected] ["Kevin Benson" <[email protected]] > #6 ALFORD OR ALFRED, Cyrus L. ["Gordon J. Johnson" <[email protected]] > #7 Re: Subject line for NYOSWEGO mail [Jacqueline Munch <[email protected]] > > Administrivia: > To unsubscribe from NYOSWEGO-D, send a message to > > [email protected] > > that contains in the body of the message the command > > unsubscribe > > and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software > requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. > > Bonita H Shafer > List Administrator > [email protected] > > > > ______________________________ > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: > mail lists/message boards > From: > "Gordon J. Johnson" <[email protected]> > Date: > Sat, 06 Sep 2003 08:44:40 -0600 > To: > [email protected] > > > ROOTSWEB REVIEW news is very, very good. It solves many problems and > prevents problems by informing us of the best way to post our messages: > > Don't forget - these messages go all over the world. Our 'shorthand' > way of talking is not only different than in other countries, but also > different in other parts of our own country. They suggest noting cities > AND states. And instead of assuming everyone reading the lists/boards > ALREADY know what is going on, so consider that someone who sees a > lists/board for the first time, is not already 'in the loop'. So writng > in complete sentences is much better understood. > > Please check-in to receiving "Rootsweb Review". It's provided by the > 'experts' in genealogy research. > > Hope this helps. > > johnson > > ______________________________ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: > RE: VANT mailing list created > From: > "TreeWright" <[email protected]> > Date: > Sat, 6 Sep 2003 14:00:28 -0400 > To: > [email protected] > > > You should at least get a subject line such as: NYOSWEGO-D Digest V03 > #130. > > -----Original Message----- > From: liz Parmalee [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 2:38 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: VANT mailing list created > > The confusion, I think, stems from the fact that when you get a message > from > the Oswego list, it does not identify itself as such, at least it > doesn't on > my computer. > Liz > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Lauren" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 9:36 AM > Subject: RE: VANT mailing list created > > > >>you are a member of the NYOswego mailing list right? Well Jerry wrote > > a > message > >>'to the list' (which means everybody on the list will get a copy) he > > wanted to > >>let people interested in the VANT surname know that a new list for > > that > name > >>'now' exists if they wish to sign up. Now do you understand? I don't > > understand > >>your confusion. >> >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Marilyn Bess [mailto:[email protected]] >>Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 6:39 PM >>To: [email protected] >>Subject: Re: VANT mailing list created >> >> >>Yes. just what is this ,ailing list and how did you get my address to > > invite > >>me to sign up. >>----- Original Message ----- >>From: "Ken Everard" <[email protected]> >>To: <[email protected]> >>Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 8:12 AM >>Subject: Re: VANT mailing list created >> >> >> >>>What is a VANT mailing list? >>> >>>Ken >>> >>>>My request has been granted and Rootsweb has started >>>>VANT mailing list. >>>> >>>>You are all invited to sign up by sending a BLANK >>>>message to >>>>[email protected] >>>>put "subscribe" n the subject line. >>>> Jerry Hale >>>> Deltona, FL >>>>==== NYOSWEGO Mailing List ==== >>> >>>New York GenExchange >>>http://www.genexchange.com/state.cfm?state=ny >> >> >>==== NYOSWEGO Mailing List ==== >>New York GenExchange >>http://www.genexchange.com/state.cfm?state=ny >> >>============================== >>To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy > > records, > go to: > >>http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >> >> > > > ______________________________ > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: > Re: VANT mailing list created > From: > "liz Parmalee" <[email protected]> > Date: > Sat, 6 Sep 2003 14:31:36 -0400 > To: > [email protected] > > > I am sorry I do not get the NYOSWEGO heading when I receive my listings > from them. > Liz > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "TreeWright" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, September 06, 2003 2:00 PM > Subject: RE: VANT mailing list created > > > >>You should at least get a subject line such as: NYOSWEGO-D Digest V03 >>#130. >> >>-----Original Message----- >>From: liz Parmalee [mailto:[email protected]] >>Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 2:38 PM >>To: [email protected] >>Subject: Re: VANT mailing list created >> >>The confusion, I think, stems from the fact that when you get a message >>from >>the Oswego list, it does not identify itself as such, at least it >>doesn't on >>my computer. >>Liz >>----- Original Message ----- >>From: "Lauren" <[email protected]> >>To: <[email protected]> >>Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 9:36 AM >>Subject: RE: VANT mailing list created >> >> >> >>>you are a member of the NYOswego mailing list right? Well Jerry wrote >> >>a >>message >> >>>'to the list' (which means everybody on the list will get a copy) he >> >>wanted to >> >>>let people interested in the VANT surname know that a new list for >> >>that >>name >> >>>'now' exists if they wish to sign up. Now do you understand? I don't >> >>understand >> >>>your confusion. >>> >>>-----Original Message----- >>>From: Marilyn Bess [mailto:[email protected]] >>>Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 6:39 PM >>>To: [email protected] >>>Subject: Re: VANT mailing list created >>> >>> >>>Yes. just what is this ,ailing list and how did you get my address to >> >>invite >> >>>me to sign up. >>>----- Original Message ----- >>>From: "Ken Everard" <[email protected]> >>>To: <[email protected]> >>>Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 8:12 AM >>>Subject: Re: VANT mailing list created >>> >>> >>> >>>>What is a VANT mailing list? >>>> >>>>Ken >>>> >>>>>My request has been granted and Rootsweb has started >>>>>VANT mailing list. >>>>> >>>>>You are all invited to sign up by sending a BLANK >>>>>message to >>>>>[email protected] >>>>>put "subscribe" n the subject line. >>>>> Jerry Hale >>>>> Deltona, FL >>>>>==== NYOSWEGO Mailing List ==== >>>> >>>>New York GenExchange >>>>http://www.genexchange.com/state.cfm?state=ny >>> >>> >>>==== NYOSWEGO Mailing List ==== >>>New York GenExchange >>>http://www.genexchange.com/state.cfm?state=ny >>> >>>============================== >>>To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy >> >>records, >>go to: >> >>>http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >>> >>> >> >> >>==== NYOSWEGO Mailing List ==== >>Northern New York History and Genealogy >>www.nnygenealogy.com >> >>============================== >>To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, > > go to: > >>http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >> >> > > > ______________________________ > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: > Re: VANT mailing list created > From: > [email protected] > Date: > Sat, 6 Sep 2003 14:57:55 -0400 > To: > [email protected] > > > On Sat, 6 Sep 2003 14:00:28 -0400 "TreeWright" <[email protected]> > writes: > >>You should at least get a subject line such as: NYOSWEGO-D Digest V03 >>#130. > > > That subject line only appears on messages going to people who are on the > Digest form of the list. Many people like to receive emails one at a > time, and there is no identifying of them except by who they are > addressed to, and many email programs do not automatically show that. > > On the Digest, you can see the subjects that those of us on the regular > list see in our subject lines by scrolling through your list to the > individual mails. Subject lines are numbered, I believe. For example, the > subject on this particular email thread is "VANT mailing list created," > and that is what appears in our (those on the regular non-Digest list) > subject line. > > -Ellen > > ______________________________ > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: > Identifying [email protected] Emails / Was: Re: VANT mailing list > created > From: > "Kevin Benson" <[email protected]> > Date: > Sat, 6 Sep 2003 18:55:20 -0400 > To: > [email protected] > > > It *APPEARS* to be that every message from this list contains the > following line near the bottom of the text area: > > >>==== NYOSWEGO Mailing List ==== > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, September 06, 2003 2:57 PM > Subject: Re: VANT mailing list created > > > >>On Sat, 6 Sep 2003 14:00:28 -0400 "TreeWright" > > <[email protected]> > >>writes: >> >>>You should at least get a subject line such as: NYOSWEGO-D Digest V03 >>>#130. >> >>That subject line only appears on messages going to people who are on > > the > >>Digest form of the list. Many people like to receive emails one at a >>time, and there is no identifying of them except by who they are >>addressed to, and many email programs do not automatically show that. >> >>On the Digest, you can see the subjects that those of us on the regular >>list see in our subject lines by scrolling through your list to the >>individual mails. Subject lines are numbered, I believe. For example, > > the > >>subject on this particular email thread is "VANT mailing list created," >>and that is what appears in our (those on the regular non-Digest list) >>subject line. >> >>-Ellen >> >> >>==== NYOSWEGO Mailing List ==== >>New York GenExchange >>http://www.genexchange.com/state.cfm?state=ny >> >>============================== >>To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy > > records, go to: > >>http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >> > > > ______________________________ > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: > ALFORD OR ALFRED, Cyrus L. > From: > "Gordon J. Johnson" <[email protected]> > Date: > Sat, 06 Sep 2003 17:49:31 -0600 > To: > [email protected] > > > I'm looking for a marriage record for Cyrus (Lafayette) Alford or Alfred > to a Melvina, maiden name unknown, 22 Sept. 1851 in Oswego, NY. They > had a son, Cyrus Jr. in 1852. Does anyone know if boatmen were > overlooked in the Federal Censuses? I think Cyrus may have been one. > Are there any other records of Oswego that I can check OnLine?? Thanks > for your help! > > johnson > > ______________________________ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: > Re: Subject line for NYOSWEGO mailing list > From: > Jacqueline Munch <[email protected]> > Date: > Sat, 06 Sep 2003 22:15:06 -0500 > To: > [email protected] > > > This is the only mailing list I'm on that does not identify itself in the subject. > I've always wondered why. I have ppprobably deleted many of them not even knowing > they were from the Oswego list, since I don't like to open unknown messages. > Whoever is responsible for this list should take some action to get that > identification in the subject line as a courtesy to all of us. > > Jacquie Some thoughts - I wonder if one's own 'software', and or browser plays a role here. We recently loaded an updated version of Netscape, and its formating is quite different from our older one. Glad to learn the D-list and L-list can appear different, to others. I was first on the L-list, and found that ON MY screen I received all of the past conversation (string) on the D-list, and felt better informed, so I switched. Are the lists managers really responsible for this? johnson