I thought the purpose of these lists was to share genealogical information. I don't remember seeing any restrictions on the number of posts per day. This complaint seems to appear on all lists periodically. I suspect that it is not the number of posts but the fact that their family is not represented that is causing the frustration. I personally have never understood why there was time to fire off a long complaint letter when the delete button could have been used profitably during that same amount of time.The suggestion of using digest form seems logical.Even though I didn't request any lookups, I want to thank Billy for his willingness to share his time and information. How much easier for him to have used the books for his own research, returned them--instead he sought permission to use the sources , took his time/effort to benefit others. I usually ignore these 'interludes', but felt compelled to express my support of list sharing. If posts are private, webpaged, or, if people feel intimidated about posting, then the purpose of the these lists is lost. Just my opinion, Jackie At 06:21 PM 9/27/99 -0400, Barney Barnhardt wrote: > >>Good for you!! While you apparently are fortunate in having the extra time >>to look through a lot of messages, others do not. I've been the route of >>looking through a long string of things in the hopes of "maybe finding >>something". Every once in a while you may get lucky, I understand that. I >>look through the most of them now, it's just that I feel that folks time >>could be better spent. I'm not faulting the fellow for doing what he's >>doing here!! I just think it could've been handled in a better way. >Maybe >>a webpage to post the results would be better. You can get web pages real >easy >>and free now-a-days!! Post the results to the webpage and then folks could >check them there and use the search feature in most browsers to check for >their names at their convenience. >> >>Barney >> >>>Barney, you probably have a good thought. But, I for one, do not mind >>>taking the extra time going through the 100+ messages daily (more, of >>>course, if I have been gone for a while). One of my surnames just might >>>be in the middle. And, no, I do not have all that extra time; but, if I >>>continue to pursue my family roots, reading other messages go along with >>>it. Others read mine - besides, there is always that delete key. >>>Do hope those who can and are willing to continue with this service will >>>do so. Perhaps the Digest version would be of more benefit rather than >>>the separate listings. >>> >>>Billie Beth M. >>> >> > > >==== ROWANROOTS Mailing List ==== >Have you joined the Rootsweb Genealogical Data >Cooperative yet? > http://www.rootsweb.com/ > >