now you are making more clear - go to ancestry.com where you check for your password - there is one section - unclick the list of newsletters there. This will stop those newsletters. I get only 1 newsletter daily because that is one I wanted to get. I don't get any other newsletters I don't want from them because I unclicked all the ones I don't want. David Samuelsen Dennis Ahern wrote: > > You are missing my point. The advertising emails she got only started > after she had been subscribed to the listserver. They are not from the > listerver, but she saw that they were from Ancestry.com and she had not > subscribed to anything from Ancestry. The emails she was getting were > lengthy ads for products. I get them too, but I figured I was getting them > because I may have bought something from them, or used some service. > > -dja > > On Mon, 13 Aug 2001, W. David Samuelsen wrote: > > > taglines in every mail from query board??? I haven't seen any in > > mine at all. > > > > Like I said, any mailing list that was not grandfathered (created > > before the clusters/merger) automatically have the taglines. > > > > go to your mailing list utilities and check customize and see > > if there is button to unclick for 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. > > > > And secondly, all surname boards are automatically gatewayed > > unless requested otherwise, or place gc-gateway@rootsweb.com on > > reject list. You will see the difference. > > > > David > > > > Dennis Ahern wrote: > > > > > > 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/ > > > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > > > > > > ============================== > > > 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 > >