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