A couple of you have asked recently if you need to "re-post" queries sent to me (Greg Reeves) in November in response to my "invitation to subscribe" letter. The answer is "yes," and here's why: I simply asked for those summaries of your individual interests in REEVES family genealogy so that, hopefully, I could identify common interests among groups of you even *BEFORE* our REEVES-L mailing list got going. 'That way, if two or three of you very clearly had a common REEVES ancestor, you 2-3 could share information outside of the normal REEVES-L subscriber pool. Of course, you're still welcome and encouraged to post any and all queries!!! But you'll need to do that yourself by sending your query to: REEVES-L@rootsweb.com The rootsweb.com was apparently "down" from late Thursday through Saturday evening and that's why--despite the fact that it was working earlier on Thursday--there's been so little posted/distributed on the REEVES-L mailing list. Everything seems to be working fine now, so let's get to posting, okay? It's also apparent that some of you are relatively unaquainted w/ just what a mailing list is; and many of you have asked "what the cost is?" There is no cost to any of you; I paid the $24/year fee to Rootsweb so that I was a sponsor-member and could start a mailing list. But it's FREE for all of you... Here too is a better description of what a mailing list is: _________________________________________________ About Mailing Lists Mailing lists are remarkably simple beasties: you send a piece of e-mail to the list's address, and the list retransmits that message to everyone who is subscribed. All Lists Have Two Addresses Every mailing list really has two addresses: the list name, where posts should be sent, and the list name followed by -request, where commands to the listserver software should be sent. For example, posts to REEVES-L should go to REEVES-L@rootsweb.com while "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests should go to REEVES-L-request@rootsweb.com. ______________________________________________________ Savvy? This isn't a "new Email address" for me; think of it as a "community Email address" where a post (message) is sent to one Email address (REEVES-L@rootsweb.com) and is automatically broadcast to all 40+ of us that are subscribed. Hope this clears of some confusion? Greg Reeves REEVES-L Listowner greg@rapidnet.com ------------------------------