On 6 Mar 02, at 10:24, Lesley Shockey wrote: > Who is the proper person to contact now about mail merge problems? One WV > CC has several forms that work properly but a few that appear to be set up > just the same will not work. Les: I have a lot of experience with MailMerg and would be glad to help where I can. Be sure to post a URL if you want help with a particular form. I prefer to help on the list so that others can learn from the exchange. Regards, Elsi

Who is the proper person to contact now about mail merge problems? One WV CC has several forms that work properly but a few that appear to be set up just the same will not work. Les Shockey

Thanks to all who checked out the site. It was very much appreciated! I don't know what my visitor was seeing to scare her, but I guess I panicked a little myself :) All I could see was two months of hard work to bring a dormant site back to life gone in one fell swoop! As tactfully as possible, I emailed her to tell her the site was clean. Thanks again for all your quick responses! Take care, Lorraine

Hi list, Last week I sent a message (see below) to those who had posted to the web site last year. Today, I got the following message from someone to whom I sent this message. What is she talking about? A virus on my web site? Makes no sense. Can anyone give me a clue what is going on here? Unfortunately, she replied to the entire list which is going to make all those folks think the web site is contaminated--geez, that's all I need! I know last week we went through this virus thing with another site and of course it was Norton anti-virus doing the damage! Here's the site! http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohbrown/index.htm Help is greatly needed and appreciated so I can contain the damage this one email is going to cause! Lorraine ----- Original Message ----- From: Grace Carson To: Lorraine Hatfield Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 5:46 PM Subject: Re: Brown County OHGenWeb Lorraine, I opened your web site and Norton found a virus in it. Just thought I would let you know, I don't have an answer for you. Grace Carson ----- Original Message ----- From: Lorraine Hatfield To: Wendy Zander ; Charlotte Carney Wineinger ; Beth Wilson ; Deb White ; Michael Welch ; Shirley Jennings Weber ; Taunji Stites Waterman ; Suzanne McCormick Wade ; Ruth A Toons ; Marie Taylor ; Richard F. Strait ; Linda Stephenson ; Jan Spitzmueller ; Carol Ron Snider ; Kathy Smith ; Shirley Shaffer ; Patsy Russell Scott ; Kathy Scott ; Norrita Sanders ; Nancy Rist ; Beth Pany ; John Owen ; Bob Newman ; Leigh E Morris ; Tami Mockus ; Sharon M Mills ; Marta Metcalf ; Diane McGuire ; Kevin R. Marsh ; Jeannine Long ; Yolanda Campbell Lifter ; Linda Cassidy Lewis ; Dixie Lea ; Pat Kern ; Richard Jaeger ; Marna L. Hing ; Donna Hile ; Dorothy Henson ; Heather Hargis ; Susan Hall ; Lelah Achey ; Kathy Barton ; Judy Bayless ; Gale Blacksnake ; Sandra Kirkpatrick Brandt ; Grace Carson ; Helen Clancy ; Daniel B. Cooley ; Mark Cox ; Andrea Hawk Crumrine ; Kathy Hays Curtis ; Mildred Homan Emmitt ; Bob Eubanks ; Hermon B. Fagley ; Mary Shelton Faircloth ; Hazel Hudson Frost ; Lois Ve! rgo Fullington ; Joy B Fulsom ; Jan Gillespie ; Rosella Gramstad ; Margaret Green ; Pat List Groves Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 9:47 PM Subject: Brown County OHGenWeb Hello, My name is Lorraine Hatfield and I'm the county coordinator for the OHGenWeb project. The reason for this brief email is twofold. 1) During the past six to seven months you either posted a query or submitted a surname to the registry for Brown County Ohio. I am trying to verify that the email addresses are still valid. If this email is returned to me, I will know to remove the posting from the list. 2) If you haven't already, I want to take this opportunity to invite you to visit the new OHGenWeb website. There have been some big changes to the site and new data is added frequently. We have pictures of our Brown County ancestors (some known, some not), bios and are in the process of adding a history for each township. There is also a new and improved surname registry as well as an easier to follow query site and plans are in the works for much more useful information for our Brown County Researchers. Check out the new Brown County OHGenWeb page: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohbrown/index.htm Your comments, suggestions and submissions are always welcome! Thanks, Lorraine Hatfield Brown County OHGenWeb County Coordinator

At 02/03/2002 12:51 -0600, Scott Burow wrote: >Hi David: > >You don't need a java script code to do this, all you need to is add the >phrase "Target=NEW" to your A HREF code like this: > >a href="WhateverWebpage.html" Target=NEW>Page Title Here</A > >(don't forget to add the opening and closing "<" and ">" .. this should go >as text across the mail, but I didn't want it converted to html through the >mail!) > >As far as I know, this will work in all browsers! > >Good luck!! > >Scott Burow Scott, This method is ok if you control the HTML code of the source page (with the link to your page). But it will not work if an external site links to your page and you don't want that your page is put "inframe" on an external site. Then you can't use your trick and instead use the following javascript code on the target page: <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> <!-- if (window != top) top.location.href = location.href; // --> </SCRIPT> OR SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript" !-- if (window != top) top.location.href = location.href; // -- /SCRIPT This public domain trick is used on many sites, one of them: The Olive Tree Genealogy http://www.olivetreegenealogy.com/nn/index.shtml Greetings, Luc Matthijs >----- Original Message ----- >From: "W David Samuelsen" <dsam@sampubco.com> >To: <RootsWeb-Help-L@rootsweb.com> >Sent: Saturday, March 02, 2002 12:30 PM >Subject: [RW-Help] javascript code for this one? > > > > Do anyone have a javascript code for the feature where one click > > and the link open up in a new window to view? (rather than replacing > > the page, forcing the visitor to use back button to go back to > > previous page.) > > > > W. David Samuelsen > > > > > > ============================== > > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, >go to: > > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > > >============================== >To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, >go to: >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 Greetings, Luc Matthijs Evere (Brussels, Belgium) luc.matthijs@advalvas.be

In a message dated 3/2/02 8:02:37 PM Eastern Standard Time, slredmond@earthlink.net writes: > I have a strange problem accessing my Hotmail email account that I use as > State > Coordinator. All of a sudden I'm getting "The document contained no data.... > " > message when I try to go to www.hotmail.com to check my mail, so I never get > to the > Hotmail home page. This is with Netscape Navigator. Trying with MS Explorer, > I get > to the home page to try to log in, but it doesn't actually log me in. I > have no > trouble accessing this account from other computers, so I've got a setting > goofed up > somewhere. > > I use Norton Internet Security 2002. I have it set to accept all cookies, > and I > have Netscape configured to accept cookies. Sandy- We're really better equipped on this list to address *RootsWeb* questions than we are to guess about hotmail accounts and accessing msn's hotmail pages. If I were you and wanted help with hotmail's pages I'd ask hotmail tech support. That said, it sounds like it COULD be a DNS issue or possibly a corrupted cache file in your temporary Internet files. Try clearing your cache and rebooting (rebooting solve a multitude of sins). I'm not sure whether hotmail uses javascript on their pages but you may wish to check and see if you have javascript enabled just in case. Not being able to login could be connected to javascript if they use it for their login process. If you use any program on your computer that might be caching DNS--this could result in your inability to access the page if the DNS has changed. Joan

I have a strange problem accessing my Hotmail email account that I use as State Coordinator. All of a sudden I'm getting "The document contained no data...." message when I try to go to www.hotmail.com to check my mail, so I never get to the Hotmail home page. This is with Netscape Navigator. Trying with MS Explorer, I get to the home page to try to log in, but it doesn't actually log me in. I have no trouble accessing this account from other computers, so I've got a setting goofed up somewhere. I use Norton Internet Security 2002. I have it set to accept all cookies, and I have Netscape configured to accept cookies. Any ideas!?!? Thanks, Sandy Sandy Redmond State Coordinator, MIGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~migenweb Calhoun County MIGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~micalhou

By mistake I did something that prevents the icon from going to the taskbar when I press "Minimize". Now, it's the same as if I closed it. For example, when writing a letter I'd like to minimize it while I get a quote from another site. Instead of an icon appearing on the taskbar at the bottom (as previously done), nothing at all appears and the letter is not to be found, as if I had closed it. And I have to start all over again. Can you help me correct my error and give me some hints, so I don't do it again? Many thanks, John New Orleans

Hi David: You don't need a java script code to do this, all you need to is add the phrase "Target=NEW" to your A HREF code like this: a href="WhateverWebpage.html" Target=NEW>Page Title Here</A (don't forget to add the opening and closing "<" and ">" .. this should go as text across the mail, but I didn't want it converted to html through the mail!) As far as I know, this will work in all browsers! Good luck!! Scott Burow CC - Marion MO and Richland IL RC - Northen and Eastern IL sburow@swbell.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "W David Samuelsen" <dsam@sampubco.com> To: <RootsWeb-Help-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, March 02, 2002 12:30 PM Subject: [RW-Help] javascript code for this one? > Do anyone have a javascript code for the feature where one click > and the link open up in a new window to view? (rather than replacing > the page, forcing the visitor to use back button to go back to > previous page.) > > W. David Samuelsen > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >

Do anyone have a javascript code for the feature where one click and the link open up in a new window to view? (rather than replacing the page, forcing the visitor to use back button to go back to previous page.) W. David Samuelsen

Is it possible to "Black list" the ISP (IP address) in Korea that is sending all the spam to the mailing lists, the garbage characters caused Eudora to have a fit tonight and it took me 2 hours to recover from all the crap that was sent out.. its all non- ASCII characters..(except for an addres at the end)... the from line is: À̳ëÄ¿¹Â´ÏÄÉÀÌ¼Ç text is: »ùÇñ³Àç(Å×ÀÌÇÁ)¸¦¹Þ¾Æº¸°í½ÍÀ¸½ÅºÐÀºÁÖ¼Ò¸¦±âÀçÇϽÅÈÄ.¾Æ·¡ÀǽÅûÇϱâ¹öÆ°À»Å¬¸ ¯Çϼ¼¿ä. »ùÇÃÅ×ÀÌÇÁ ½ÅûÀÚ´Â ÁÖ¼ÒÈ®Àΰú ÇÔ²² ¹«·á·Î ±³Àç ¹× ÇÁ·Î±×·¥ »ó´ãÀ» °ð¹Ù·Î ¹ÞÀ¸½Ç ¼ö ÀÖ½À´Ï´Ù. >>> ¿øÄ¡ ¾Ê´Â ¸ÞÀÏÀ» ¹ÞÀ¸¼Ì´Ù¸é ÀÌÁ¡ ¾çÇØÇØ Áֽñ⠹ٶø´Ï´Ù. ¼ö½ÅÀ» ¿øÄ¡ ¾ÊÀ¸½Ã¸é ¾Æ·¡ À̸ÞÀÏ ÁÖ¼Ò¸¦ ÀÔ·ÂÇÏ½Ã°í ¼ö½Å°ÅºÎ ¹öÆ°À» Ŭ¸¯ÇØ Áֽñ⠹ٶø´Ï´Ù. ¹®ÀÇ : À̳ëÄ¿¹Â´ÏÄÉÀÌ¼Ç (02)6351-7500 webmaster@mailpartner.co.kr À̸ÞÀÏ ÀÔ·Â Lee

Well, after all these years, I found that all I needed was to type a space in the cell of the table to stop it from collapsing! I want to thank everyone for all the time you took to help me. I used books and searched the web extensively and could find the answer. Thanks again. -- Pat Connors, Sacramento CA http://www.connorsgenealogy.com All outgoing mail virus free, scanned by Norton 2002

In a message dated 2/27/02 9:52:16 PM Eastern Standard Time, nymets11@pacbell.net writes: > I need a transparent gif to put in my table cells where I don't have any > data. The cell collapses without data, therefore, no lines are evident > to delineate the cell. The standard way to create an empty cell is to use the BR (break) tag by itself in the cell. Drew Smith FSGS Webmaster

At 06:47 PM 02/27/2002 -0800, Pat Connors wrote: >I need a transparent gif to put in my table cells where I don't have any >data. The cell collapses without data, therefore, no lines are evident >to delineate the cell. Does anyone have one I can use or know of where >I can get one on line. Pat -- I have a 1 pixel transparent gif, but you'd never be able to find it to click & download from my pages. If you'd like, I can send as a file attachment. Have you tried just putting a non-breaking space in the table cell? The HTML symbol is &nbsp; (& n b s p ;) Regards, Elsi

Besides a transparent gif, you can just hit the space bar in a WYSIWYG program to insert a non-breaking-space. The code is on the next line. &nbsp; Susan Pat Connors wrote: > > I need a transparent gif to put in my table cells where I don't have any > data. The cell collapses without data, therefore, no lines are evident > to delineate the cell. Does anyone have one I can use or know of where > I can get one on line.

Hi Pat, I simply put a period in the space. It's unobtrusive and maintains the lines for the cell. Try it, you'll like it. John New Orleans --------------------------- Pat Connors wrote: > > I need a transparent gif to put in my table cells where I don't have any > data. The cell collapses without data, therefore, no lines are evident > to delineate the cell. Does anyone have one I can use or know of where > I can get one on line. > > -- > Pat Connors, Sacramento CA > http://www.connorsgenealogy.com > All outgoing mail virus free, > scanned by Norton 2002 > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237

I need a transparent gif to put in my table cells where I don't have any data. The cell collapses without data, therefore, no lines are evident to delineate the cell. Does anyone have one I can use or know of where I can get one on line. -- Pat Connors, Sacramento CA http://www.connorsgenealogy.com All outgoing mail virus free, scanned by Norton 2002

Thank you for your suggestions, though nothing has helped so far. I'm rebuilding the frameset page, as the two frames are still intact. Sherrill RootsWeb-Help-D-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > Subject: > > RootsWeb-Help-D Digest Volume 02 : Issue 38 > > Today's Topics: > #1 [RW-Help] Lost Web page [Sherrill Brown <compunique@pivot.n] > #2 [RW-Help] Fw: There is a virus in ["Jo Thiessen" <jog1@ix.netcom.com>] > > Administrivia: > To unsubscribe from RootsWeb-Help-D, send a message to > > RootsWeb-Help-D-request@rootsweb.com > > that contains in the body of the message the command > > unsubscribe > > and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software > requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. > > ______________________________ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: [RW-Help] Lost Web page > Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 22:07:58 -0500 > From: Sherrill Brown <compunique@pivot.net> > To: RootsWeb-Help-L@rootsweb.com > > I tried to rename one of my web pages and ended up losing the whole > page. When I try to open it in Netscape Composer, the page is blank, > but it appears when I click on 'preview'. It's still on my website and > I thought that I could download it back to my local system just like I > uploaded it, but that doesn't seem to work. I'm using WS_FTP, and I > highlight the home.html page on the remote site, then click on the arrow > pointing towards my local system. It doesn't download to my hard > drive. Help please. > > Sherrill > > ______________________________ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: [RW-Help] Fw: There is a virus in the Harrison County Web Page > Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 15:23:44 -0500 > From: "Jo Thiessen" <jog1@ix.netcom.com> > To: RootsWeb-Help-L@rootsweb.com > > If this is true how do I remedy it? > Jo Thiessen > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "John Douglas" <johnblue2@prodigy.net> > To: "Jo Thiessen" <jog1@ix.netcom.com> > Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2002 2:22 PM > Subject: Re: There is a virus in the Harrison County Web Page > > > Jo, > > > > This is the page (I figured out how to copy the link without actually > > clicking on it) > > > > ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ky/harrison > > > > When I clicked on it (I tried it twice) the Norton Antivirus kicked in and > > blocked the virus from connecting to my computer. > > > > Hope that helps. > > > > John Douglas > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Jo Thiessen" <jog1@ix.netcom.com> > > To: "John Douglas" <johnblue2@prodigy.net> > > Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2002 12:41 PM > > Subject: Re: There is a virus in the Harrison County Web Page > > > > > > > Tell me more. Were you trying to download something? I assume you mean > > the > > > archives > > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ky/harrison/harrison.html > > > > > > which have old records in non-html format. If not on this page please > > tell > > > me where you found this. > > > Jo > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: "John Douglas" <johnblue2@prodigy.net> > > > To: <jog1@ix.netcom.com> > > > Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2002 10:05 PM > > > Subject: There is a virus in the Harrison County Web Page > > > > > > > > > When you try to click the link for HARRISON COUNTY FTP DIRECTORY my > Norton > > > Antivirus program alerts me that a Trojan virus is trying to gain access > > (de > > > Trois v1. Trojan). I am certainly not an expert about this stuff but > > > thought you might want to know. > > > > > > John Douglas > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >

Is CC Helper available to those of us who have genealogical/historical society sites? I thought it was only for county co-ordinators? Linda

At 12:20 AM 02/26/2002 -0500, R.J.NIDA wrote: > We have recently created a rootsweb site for our historical society and would like some suggestions for the easiest and most effective way of handling queries from our viewers. Any suggestions from some of the experts would be appreciated. >Jack Nida Jack: I think it depends on what you plan to do with the queries you receive. If the society plans to provide some kind of answer then the suggestions given are quite helpful. As a USGenWeb County Coordinator, I don't have volunteers to look at the queries and provide any answers. All I commit to do is post the queries for others to read and respond to. I'm particularly fond of using MailMerge to collect the queries and CCHelper to manage them. I set up a MailMerge form to collect the queries and post them temporarily to a file which can be viewed immediately. Quarterly, I download the file, import the queries into CCHelper, and upload the organized queries, and then purge the temporary file. You can see this in action at http://www.rootsweb.com/~alcalhou/qryindex.htm Regards, Elsi