In a message dated 8/14/01 8:59:54 AM Eastern Daylight Time, ahern@world.std.com writes: > > Like I said, any mailing list that was not grandfathered (created > > before the clusters/merger) automatically have the taglines. > > Well, they are there in ours and I didn't put them there. In fact, when I > go to the Taglines page of the list admin page I find that there are no > taglines entered at all. As for the grandparentage, I was the admin for > this list before the recent merger and it seems like some things must have > been done without my intervention. Dennis- First of all, the merger between Ancestry.com and RootsWeb.com took place over a year ago--it wasn't recent. Second, the commercial taglines were added to non-sponsored lists by RootsWeb over a year prior to the merger with Ancestry.com--so they date back to mid 1999 although they weren't always used for anything more than advertising RootsWeb services themselves for a time. When a list is subject to mandatory commercial taglines the list admin won't see them on his Tools page--they exist in addition to the optional taglines set by the admin. > > > go to your mailing list utilities and check customize and see > > if there is button to unclick for commercial taglines. > > I see no such button. This would indicate that you list is subject to mandatory commercial taglines. > > > And as for "check her for latest in CDs from Ancestry.com" - if > > it is in 3 line tagline - nothing you can do unless you are list > > admin and go to your mailing list utilities to check and see if the > > button is there or not. > > No, these were not three line tags, but rather separate emails from our > "sponsor" touting the latest in purchasable material. I do not mind these > myself, but others seem to be taking exception to these unsolicited > importunings. Separate emails (as opposed to commercial taglines) are NOT connected to your mailing list and/or the gateway from the message board. These would be coming to you from a different source. I think others have already explained to you how to "uncheck" the boxes that are causing these messages to be sent to you about various Ancestry products or services. Joan