On Mon, 13 Aug 2001, W. David Samuelsen wrote: > those are taglines. Worldconnect is not an ad at all. It is a > resource site. The others are Ancestry's and one of them isn't an > advertisement at all. It's a library resource! And they are NOT > using emails to build up their distribution lists. If you want You misunderstood my post. The person who complained was citing these taglines she sees on the bottom of the listerver mails as being the same places she is getting unwanted ads from, you know the ones - "Here is a list of the latest CDs from Ancestry.com - click here to purchase" etc. > Grandfathered mailing lists don't have commercial taglines added > at all. Those are the ones that were before the merger of over > a year ago. We've had our list for a lot more than a year, but when they redid the message board system recently we all of a sudden started getting these taglines on every mail from the query board. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dennis Ahern | The Ahern Family Genealogy Website Acton, Massachusetts | http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~aherns/ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

I just want to clarify one point. Where David said: Dennis Ahern wrote: > > On Mon, 13 Aug 2001, W. David Samuelsen wrote: . > > Grandfathered mailing lists don't have commercial taglines added > > at all. Those are the ones that were before the merger of over > > a year ago. > > We've had our list for a lot more than a year, but when they redid the > message board system recently we all of a sudden started getting these > taglines on every mail from the query board. . The dividing line as to whether a list has commercial taglines or not doesn't have anything to do with the merger at all. Before the cluster lists were created, the only lists and boards Rootsweb had, besides the USGW and Maiser lists, were ones where the listowner was a financial contributor. None of those lists had commercial taglines. When the Communities and cluster lists were created, they ALL had commercial taglines, and always WILL have. That is how they were supported financially. If you adopt a "sponsored/untagged" list directly from the listowner, you can decide whether or not to have the commercial taglines added to your list posts. I personally almost always have them turned on -- one more way to support Rootsweb. If you adopt a list from the list of adoptables, however, it will have taglines. If you are a former contributor and ask to have a list created for you, it will have no taglines unless you choose to have them. Whether or not a post is gatewayed will have NO influence on whether or not it is taglined. That will be determined by the list settings. Valorie PS: Yes, to answer the title of this post -- Ancestry IS using the lists for ads, when they don't sell the ad space to someone else. They do NOT, however, send anyone anything they don't ask for. Come on people -- if Ancestry doesn't succeed financially, We Will Have No Rootsweb. There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.