Can someone please give me the URL to make sure I am still administrator of my boards. Peggy

In a message dated 7/8/01 9:35:07 AM Eastern Daylight Time, smcb0824@brightok.net writes: > Why do they appear to come FROM me? I did not post these myself. On the > board the proper author is displayed. This is a minor detail, though > annoying. Susan- Yes it is--and it is a bug that many of us have already reported. Joan

This is a low priority bug yet to be corrected by programmers. They have other higher priority bugs to fix first. They have this bug on list to do. David Susan Bradford wrote: > > I signed up for Notifications from Dewey County message board and received > first notification. > > Why do they appear to come FROM me? I did not post these myself. On the > board the proper author is displayed. This is a minor detail, though > annoying. > > >X-Received: 8 Jul 2001 06:20:36 GMT > >Received: from mfmbm007.myfamilycorp.local (10.5.1.176:3780) by > >mfemailm002.myfamilycorp.local (LSMTP for Windows NT v1.1b) with SMTP id > ><4.00003286@mfemailm002.myfamilycorp.local>; 8 Jul 2001 0:20:15 -0600 > >Received: from mail pickup service by mfmbm007.myfamilycorp.local with > >Microsoft SMTPSVC; > > Sun, 8 Jul 2001 00:20:15 -0600 > >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >From: "Message Boards" <Boards@Ancestry.com> > >To: smcb0824@icqmail.com > >Subject: Message Boards: My Notifications > >Message-ID: <MFMBM007yCKDkb9pPFR00002cc0@mfmbm007.myfamilycorp.local> > >X-OriginalArrivalTime: 08 Jul 2001 06:20:15.0493 (UTC) > >FILETIME=[0D5EB350:01C10776] > >Date: 8 Jul 2001 00:20:15 -0600 > > > >My Notifications > > > > Board : Boards > Localities > North America > United States > > > States > Oklahoma > Counties > Dewey > > Subject : Re: NEWFIELDT > > Author : Susan Bradford > > Date : 2001 July 7 05:00:39 AM > > Link : > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=message&r=rw&p=localities.northam.usa.states.oklahoma.counties.dewey&m=58.300 > > > > Board : Boards > Localities > North America > United States > > > States > Oklahoma > Counties > Dewey > > Subject : Albert & Minnie Adair - 1900's > > Author : Susan Bradford > > Date : 2001 July 7 04:22:10 PM > > Link : > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=message&r=rw&p=localities.northam.usa.states.oklahoma.counties.dewey&m=350 > > > >The Message Board Administration Team > > ============================== > Visit Ancestry.com for a FREE 14-Day Trial and enjoy access to the #1 > Source for Family History Online. Go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/subscribe/subscribetrial1y.asp?sourcecode=F11HB

I signed up for Notifications from Dewey County message board and received first notification. Why do they appear to come FROM me? I did not post these myself. On the board the proper author is displayed. This is a minor detail, though annoying. >X-Received: 8 Jul 2001 06:20:36 GMT >Received: from mfmbm007.myfamilycorp.local (10.5.1.176:3780) by >mfemailm002.myfamilycorp.local (LSMTP for Windows NT v1.1b) with SMTP id ><4.00003286@mfemailm002.myfamilycorp.local>; 8 Jul 2001 0:20:15 -0600 >Received: from mail pickup service by mfmbm007.myfamilycorp.local with >Microsoft SMTPSVC; > Sun, 8 Jul 2001 00:20:15 -0600 >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >From: "Message Boards" <Boards@Ancestry.com> >To: smcb0824@icqmail.com >Subject: Message Boards: My Notifications >Message-ID: <MFMBM007yCKDkb9pPFR00002cc0@mfmbm007.myfamilycorp.local> >X-OriginalArrivalTime: 08 Jul 2001 06:20:15.0493 (UTC) >FILETIME=[0D5EB350:01C10776] >Date: 8 Jul 2001 00:20:15 -0600 > >My Notifications > > Board : Boards > Localities > North America > United States > > States > Oklahoma > Counties > Dewey > Subject : Re: NEWFIELDT > Author : Susan Bradford > Date : 2001 July 7 05:00:39 AM > Link : > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=message&r=rw&p=localities.northam.usa.states.oklahoma.counties.dewey&m=58.300 > > Board : Boards > Localities > North America > United States > > States > Oklahoma > Counties > Dewey > Subject : Albert & Minnie Adair - 1900's > Author : Susan Bradford > Date : 2001 July 7 04:22:10 PM > Link : > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=message&r=rw&p=localities.northam.usa.states.oklahoma.counties.dewey&m=350 > >The Message Board Administration Team

Somebody suggested a workaround for finding missing obituaries. That misses the whole point of what I was trying to address and that is the problem of links that were previously set up from some page or another. Where a link used to go to a specific obituary, for example, now it comes up empty handed because everything has been reorganized. Forget about suggesting workarounds. That will not work for people that are following hard coded reference links from other boards or pages. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dennis Ahern | The Ahern Family Genealogy Website Acton, Massachusetts | http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~aherns/ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

That is very true, Dennis. Thousands of links have been broken, and will have to be updated. But that is the very nature of the Web, is it not? There is no way to sugar-coat it -- a way was NOT found to make redirects for each individual post. Once all the boards have been moved into their final logical postitions, the website owners who care will find the obits and other posts with their new URLs, and update them. Those who don't care, will at least leave a clue for the persistent researcher. Valorie Dennis Ahern wrote: > > Somebody suggested a workaround for finding missing obituaries. That > misses the whole point of what I was trying to address and that is the > problem of links that were previously set up from some page or > another. Where a link used to go to a specific obituary, for example, now > it comes up empty handed because everything has been reorganized. Forget > about suggesting workarounds. That will not work for people that are > following hard coded reference links from other boards or pages. > > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > Dennis Ahern | The Ahern Family Genealogy Website > Acton, Massachusetts | http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~aherns/ > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

the url for Somerset Co is maligned. I figured out the problem. It should be outrageous simple .... http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=board&r=rw&p=localities.northam.usa.states.pennsylvania.counties.somerset&type=obituary I simply cut off the main url for the county, after the county name and add only &type=obituary Got the exact result. Just replace obituary, with other classifications as listed below. David Valorie Zimmerman wrote: > > I realize that this is old, but I did hear that the Resource pages were > going to be updated, today. Also, someone has figured out how to link to > just Obits, or just another of the Classifications: > > This is part of a post by Denny Shirer to Boards-Admins: > > "Link for obituaries for Shirer surname board > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?f=setsessioncookie&r=rw&p=surnames.shirer&ONOK=http%3A%2F%2Fboards.ancestry.com%2Fmbexec%3Fhtx%3Dboard%26r%3Drw%26p%3Dsurnames.shirer%26type%3Dobituary&cookiename=CLASSIFICATION&cookievalue=obituary > > Link for obituaries for Somerset Co., PA board > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?f=setsessioncookie&r=rw&p=localities.northam.usa.states.pennsylvania.counties.somerset&ONOK=http%3A%2F%2Fboards.ancestry.com%2Fmbexec%3Fhtx%3Dboard%26r%3Drw%26p%3Dsurnames.shirer%26type%3Dobituary&cookiename=CLASSIFICATION&cookievalue=obituary > > Just replace "obituary" in the link with one of the following to > pre-filter the other > classifications: > > bible > biography > birth > cemetery > census > death > deed > immigration > lookup > marriage > military > obituary > pension > will > > Leave it blank to choose all. > > You will have to edit the value of "p" to match your boards directory > but this should work for everyone who wants to maintain some resemblance > of the old system to help ease the transition for the users." > > I hope this helps somebody... > > Valorie > > Dennis Ahern wrote: > > > > I was just poking around with the search engine as I sometimes do and wnet > > down a path that petered out in the new boards system. Here is what I > > did: > > > > At http://resources.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/metasearch entered "Ahern" > > At http://vitals.rootsweb.com/ca/death/search.cgi?surname=ahern&given= > > chose an Ahern born 03/15/1941 who died in San Joaquin Valley > > At http://resources.rootsweb.com/USA/CA/SanJoaquin/ I clicked on a link > > that said "San Joaqun County Obituaries" which took me to > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=board&r=rw&p= which doesn't have any > > mention of obituaries. What is the new board system going to do to handle > > all these links that have been constructed and now broken? > > > > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > > Dennis Ahern | The Ahern Family Genealogy Website > > Acton, Massachusetts | http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~aherns/ > > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > > ============================== > Join the RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: > Linking the world, one GEDCOM at a time. > http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com

I worked on this a few hours tonight. I am getting very good at removing files using ws_ftp pro. My problem now seems to be that when I type in the <ftp://users.rootsweb.com>ftp://users.rootsweb.com and try to publish, Front page jumps to previously written <FTP://users.rootsweb.com/public.html>"FTP://users.rootsweb.com/public.html" each time this happens it puts junk in the file. That is why I am getting good at deleting files. Do you know how I can erase unwanted destinations from the publish screen on Front page? My thanks to everyone. I have a lot of good information to share if I can ever figure this out. <http://www.rootsweb.com/~vtcbarna/index.htm>www.rootsweb.com/~vtcbarna/inde x.htm is or will be my url

I realize that this is old, but I did hear that the Resource pages were going to be updated, today. Also, someone has figured out how to link to just Obits, or just another of the Classifications: This is part of a post by Denny Shirer to Boards-Admins: "Link for obituaries for Shirer surname board http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?f=setsessioncookie&r=rw&p=surnames.shirer&ONOK=http%3A%2F%2Fboards.ancestry.com%2Fmbexec%3Fhtx%3Dboard%26r%3Drw%26p%3Dsurnames.shirer%26type%3Dobituary&cookiename=CLASSIFICATION&cookievalue=obituary Link for obituaries for Somerset Co., PA board http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?f=setsessioncookie&r=rw&p=localities.northam.usa.states.pennsylvania.counties.somerset&ONOK=http%3A%2F%2Fboards.ancestry.com%2Fmbexec%3Fhtx%3Dboard%26r%3Drw%26p%3Dsurnames.shirer%26type%3Dobituary&cookiename=CLASSIFICATION&cookievalue=obituary Just replace "obituary" in the link with one of the following to pre-filter the other classifications: bible biography birth cemetery census death deed immigration lookup marriage military obituary pension will Leave it blank to choose all. You will have to edit the value of "p" to match your boards directory but this should work for everyone who wants to maintain some resemblance of the old system to help ease the transition for the users." I hope this helps somebody... Valorie Dennis Ahern wrote: > > I was just poking around with the search engine as I sometimes do and wnet > down a path that petered out in the new boards system. Here is what I > did: > > At http://resources.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/metasearch entered "Ahern" > At http://vitals.rootsweb.com/ca/death/search.cgi?surname=ahern&given= > chose an Ahern born 03/15/1941 who died in San Joaquin Valley > At http://resources.rootsweb.com/USA/CA/SanJoaquin/ I clicked on a link > that said "San Joaqun County Obituaries" which took me to > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=board&r=rw&p= which doesn't have any > mention of obituaries. What is the new board system going to do to handle > all these links that have been constructed and now broken? > > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > Dennis Ahern | The Ahern Family Genealogy Website > Acton, Massachusetts | http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~aherns/ > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

I told Bill I'd report this -- So I'm reporting it. (g) Dunno if it's RW's end or his, and even that info much might help him. REPLY ALL will get it to him; I'm logging off for several hours to take care of non-board business. (g) Cheryl Bill Phillips <wfp@ziplink.net> >Bill Phillips wrote: >> >> I've been receiving multiple copies of this (and the companion >> enewsletter, Missing Links) all day ... I must have deleted at least >> 30 of each, possibly more. >> >> In desparation, I finally sent out an unsub message ... but it has had >> no effect, at least so far ... >> >> Anyone else having this problem, or is it just me, for reasons I >> cannot begin to comprehend? >> >> wfp | Bill Phillips | OlProfBear | :::: visit the Classic-Style Radio >> mailing list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Classic-StyleRadio > *_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_* Cheryl Singhal (Singhals@erols.com) http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~cpafug/ http://www.rootsweb.com/~wvhampsh/ http://www.capaccess.org/com/troop763/ http://www.fortunecity.com/millennium/blyton/772/ (Bottony Cross DAR) http://www.rootsweb.com/~cresap/ http://members.fortunecity.com/csinghal1/ (Joanna Waddill UDC)

At 11:49 AM 07/06/2001, singhals wrote: >I told Bill I'd report this -- So I'm reporting it. (g) > >Dunno if it's RW's end or his, and even that info much might help him. > >REPLY ALL will get it to him; I'm logging off for several hours to take >care of non-board business. (g) > >Cheryl > >Bill Phillips <wfp@ziplink.net> > >>Bill Phillips wrote: >>> >>> I've been receiving multiple copies of this (and the companion >>> enewsletter, Missing Links) all day ... I must have deleted at least >>> 30 of each, possibly more. Bill -- I'm still only getting one copy of each. I think Tim (Pierce) or Megan can take a look at the headers and tell if you're actually being sent multiple copies or if the one being sent to you is being replicated by your ISP somehow. You might send a note to listmaster@rootsweb.com and see. Regards, Elsi

I am relatively new to web design and hosting a site and not familiar with the various software packages. Sausage Software have a special price on their web editing Hot Dog Professional at http://www.sausagetools.com/lockergnome/index.html I will be involved in designing and maintaining a large site for a historical association and am wondering if anyone would recommend or has had experience with this software. Thanks, David McKinney

I use index.htm on all my default pages and it works fine. I think the lower case issue was most likely the problem. Joe -----Original Message----- From: Rkhouston@aol.com [mailto:Rkhouston@aol.com] Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2001 9:11 AM To: RootsWeb-Help-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [RW-Help] Re: Not recognizing index.htm Candice, Try changing the name to index.html . I'm not positive, but I'm almost certain that the only way the auto display will work is if it ends in html instead of htm . Good luck! Ronda Houston

At 10:44 PM 07/05/2001 -0400, Linda Darling wrote: >Hi All ~ > >The counter on my week old webpage had been working fine. Was in the 160s >this morning. > >Tonight is says: > >"You are our (timeout locking file) visitor -- thanks for stopping by! " > >How/why did this happen and can I fix it?? Q: How/why did this happen? A: It happened because the server was busy and couldn't get a lock on the counter file before the default timeout period for retrieving and updating the counter. Q: Can I fix it? A: Nope. It doesn't happen very often, but only the owner of the server (RootsWeb, I presume) can add more resources to resolve the problem. In my opinion, counters are interesting, but not vital. Does it really matter whether your page has been viewed 175 times or 179? Regards, Elsi

Hi All ~ The counter on my week old webpage had been working fine. Was in the 160s this morning. Tonight is says: "You are our (timeout locking file) visitor -- thanks for stopping by! " How/why did this happen and can I fix it?? Thanks, Linda

Candice, Try changing the name to index.html . I'm not positive, but I'm almost certain that the only way the auto display will work is if it ends in html instead of htm . Good luck! Ronda Houston

Uploaded my site July 1 using the Online File Manager. Sent the URL to websites@rootsweb.com. Cannot find the page listed anyplace other than the clusters pages that I submitted. The title is Barnhart-Fettinger Families. What am I missing? URL: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~barney

On 4 Jul 01, at 22:02, Carol wrote: > I have been struggling with loading a page for almost a year. I am > using front page. Somehow in May I actually got the site up however > I couldn't change the information. I discovered that I had several > public html files when using ws_ftp program. Using the ws_ftp I > removed the page. I have been studying Front page and thought I > understood how to get the page up and be able to edit it. I am trying > to load to ftp://users.rootsweb.com/publichtml Now I am getting a > message saying "Host Info 1.htm permission denied on server > (Filename(accept)". When I go to www.rootsweb.com/~vtcbarna > <http://www.rootsweb.com/~vtcbarna > I see no public html however if I > view what I loaded at > > ftp://vtcbarna@rootsweb.com/home0001/usa/vt/vtcbarna I see a mess that > includes several public html. It appears that your FrontPage setup has caused some extraneous directories to be created in the account. The only 'public html' directory which counts is the one named 'public_html'. Every other variant which you've managed to create needs to be deleted: Public.html public.html publichtml And, somehow FrontPage has managed to create other directories which should be inside the public_html directory, but are instead in your account's home directory: _borders _derived _fpclass _overlay _private _themes images And I'm not sure why there's a subdirectory named 'vtcbarna' in there. In short, it's a mess. Since you have WS-FTP, I'd suggest logging in with it and deleting all these extraneous directories (everything except the supplied public_html one). If there are files inside the directory, they have to be deleted before you can delete the directory. Then, review your FrontPage set up with Ken Rury's hints and tips for FrontPage users. Just substitute 'users.rootsweb.com' for 'users.freepages.rootsweb.com' in his directions. Ken's tips can be found at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~krury/wfrontpage.htm Regards, Elsi Regards, Elsi

I have been struggling with loading a page for almost a year. I am using front page. Somehow in May I actually got the site up however I couldn't change the information. I discovered that I had several public html files when using ws_ftp program. Using the ws_ftp I removed the page. I have been studying Front page and thought I understood how to get the page up and be able to edit it. I am trying to load to ftp://users.rootsweb.com/publichtml Now I am getting a message saying "Host Info 1.htm permission denied on server (Filename(accept)". When I go to www.rootsweb.com/~vtcbarna <http://www.rootsweb.com/~vtcbarna > I see no public html however if I view what I loaded at ftp://vtcbarna@rootsweb.com/home0001/usa/vt/vtcbarna I see a mess that includes several public html. If anyone can help it would be appreciated. Carol

Your index file has to be all lower case, index.html or index.htm to automagically be displayed. > I just uploaded via FrontPage a new web page (www.rootsweb.com/~mompcdar/) > and going in via IE, I get the directory listing. It is not starting the > Index.htm automatically. When I add the Index.htm to the URL I am told the > page does not exist. The pages work but the user must select Index.htm, > which is not ideal. > > Will you tell me how to correct this problem? I have tried finding the > info but have not been able find anything useful. Is there an archive of > the webmasters mailing list? > > Thanks for your help. > Candice Becker > beckerca@ipa.net > > > ============================== > Visit Ancestry's Library - The best collection of family history > learning and how-to articles on the Internet. > http://www.ancestry.com/learn/library -Doc --- System Administrator and all-round guru RootsWeb <http://www.rootsweb.com/> maddoc@rootsweb.com MyFamily.com <http://www.myfamily.com> Ancestry.com <http://www.ancestry.com>