What are your recommendations? I have only one list for Adair County, and my other counties are done by others. Do you see a problem? Should I get a list for my remaining county - Nowata? I was hoping that I would not have to be bothered with lists in these counties, but will do what you want me to. Advise. Will be back permanently as of this coming week. Am sorting through mounds of mail from last week. Ann At 10:44 PM 10/22/98 -0500, you wrote: >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 > > >