Marti: Should I have a mailing list for my county? If so, how do I go about it? BTW, I am back into my size 10 clothes. After that Prep3 Kit and drinking over 80 ounces of water, I am sure I lost about 10 pounds. See, I was just full of sh--! Hi-Pri-Ruthie -----Original Message----- From: Marti Graham <marti@myfamily.org> To: OK-IT-L@rootsweb.com <OK-IT-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Thursday, October 22, 1998 8:41 PM Subject: [OK-IT-L] FWIW - Mailing List >From: Brian Leverich <leverich@rootsweb.com > >> Could somebody clarify USGW and rootsweb policy on county-specific >> lists for me, please? Specifically, can *anyone* set up a rootsweb >> list for a county, without prior communication with the CC for that >> county? And if not, where are the safeguards to ensure that this >> does not happen? (It just did, which is why I'm asking). > >There are *NO* safeguards. > >That's the reason I keep telling State Coordinators that they ought >to recommend that their CCs request their lists *now*. > >If a CC doesn't ask for a list and a RootsWeb Sponsor does, RootsWeb >will issue the list to the Sponsor. It's completely first-come, >first-served. > >BTW, mailing lists are a pretty cool addition to a county page. Not >only do they build a community around the county Website and keep >people coming back, you can do other neat things with them. For >example as was just discussed over on listowners@rootsweb.com, any >CC can put a search engine for their mailing list archives right on >their own county page. It's just a single line of HTML. > >PLEASE, PLEASE pass the word along to your county coordinators that >county mailing lists at RootsWeb are free and easy to maintain. And >that RootsWeb Sponsors are volunteering to host the lists that CCs >haven't requested and, once a list is gone, it's gone. -B > >-- >Dr. Brian Leverich Co-moderator, soc.genealogy.methods/GENMTD-L >RootsWeb Genealogical Data Cooperative http://www.rootsweb.com/ >P.O. Box 6798, Frazier Park, CA 93222-6798 leverich@rootsweb.com >