Most lists are set up in the manner you describe. I was one of the people that responded to Dale. When I hit the 'reply' button the address was listed as his, not the lists'. I would see this as more of a request to send to the list administrator. Currently the address of this list must be typed in for new submissions as well as responses. I will vote for the change Teri Judy Arnold wrote: > We went through this on another list I was on and I asked that all answers be sent to everyone > not just the person asking the question. This is the only way we have of sharing. On that list every > one agreed with me and started sharing the answers with everyone so we would all have the opportunity > to take advantage of the answer or delete if the answer had no use to them. I read the questions and > look forward to learning the answers. > Thank you for listening > Judith Pierce Arnold > > [email protected] wrote: > > > The following message was posted to the Digest. I must admit that I am very > > confused. I thought this list was intended for everyone to post queries and S > > HARE responses. I saw no responses to her request yet she apparently got > > responses. So what were they? I would also like to know. If we don't share > > answers we are no better off than we were before - working alone in a > > library. It is one thing to post a query about a specific person and see no > > response (although even then you never know what might click with another > > person and bingo another "cousin" found!) but something this general should > > be shared. So, may I see responses, please??!! > > > > ------------------- > > X-Message: #1 > > Date: Sat, 4 Dec 1999 08:04:04 -0500 > > From: "Dale Arnold" <[email protected]> > > To: [email protected] > > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > > Subject: [PIERCE-L] Pierce Family Crest --- Thank You > > Content-Type: text/plain; > > charset="iso-8859-1" > > > > Hi everyone, > > > > My request for help on the Pierce crest was my first foray into the mailing > > list community and was very pleasantly surprised at the responses that I got. > > > > Thanks to the replies that I received, I found a couple of different > > variations on the Pierce family crest. > > > > Thanks go out to everyone who replied and who was thinking of replying. > > > > Dale > > > > ==== PIERCE Mailing List ==== > > CHECK OUT THE Resource Center Page at http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~pierces/ > > Updated site will be surfacing after the Holidays, your coordinators have been extremely busy in 1999, but hope that 2000 will net more time to getting the Project into a better style design. As always we welcome help and contributions in the form of data. > > ==== PIERCE Mailing List ==== > Send list messages to [email protected] > Digest Mode: [email protected]