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    1. [PASNYDER-L] Re: GENEALOGICAL SUICIDE--LISTOWNER MESSAGE--PLEASE READ
    2. This thread is the biggest threat to genealogy. This cross posting to all these lists is going to crash rootsweb! Please stop this thread or take it private. If the average list on this thread has 500 people on it, this post generates over 25,000 posts each time someone replies to it. Maiser, a genealogy server like rootsweb was crashed by a single spam of 10,000 posts and is no more. It never recovered. You are putting rootsweb in danger of doing the same. When you cross post, the computer tries to send out all these messages at once. It not only causes an unbalance but can also backlog all these messages until the system overloads and crashes. Brian who runs rootsweb has posted about how dangerous this practice is and has asked that people cross post to only 3 or 4 at a time (in the case of roots-l that has over 10,000 subscribers, post to it alone.) So please, stop this now. A listowner whose list was spammed by this post.

    04/12/1998 08:34:10