It appears to me all these "by way of"s are thinly disguised advertisements for the company whose name is appended at the end--------- If it smells like SPAM..................... Ken Robinson ----- Original Message ----- From: by way of Steve Coker <stevenjcoker@netzero.net> <cainestown@webtv.net> To: <SCROOTS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2001 2:29 PM Subject: [SC] NEW SC HISTORY/GEN SITE > I would like to invite you to visit my new SC History and Genealogy web > site http://community-2.webtv.net/darklaw51/SC it is best viewed on my > Webtv <g> (it has a dark background) so if there is any problems please > email me privately darklaw51@webtv.net or cainestown@webtv.net and not > on the list, I am sending this post to many other list so if you receive > more than one I apologize please delete, if you have a SC site and wish > to link to mine please let me know off the list. thank you laveta > townsend > > ".... people will forget what you said ... .... people will forget what > you did ... .... but people will never forget how you made them feel > ..." > > > Shop online without a credit card > http://www.rocketcash.com > RocketCash, a NetZero subsidiary > > > ==== SCROOTS Mailing List ==== > [SC] SCROOTS-L@ROOTSWEB.COM > http://www.scroots.org/ > > ============================== > Join the RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: > Linking the world, one GEDCOM at a time. > http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com >

At 05:09 PM 3/13/01, you wrote: >It appears to me all these "by way of"s are thinly disguised advertisements >for the company whose name is appended at the end--------- >If it smells like SPAM..................... The advertisements you are referring to in the emails are added automatically by the various servers that the messages flow through. I moved last fall from South Carolina to Colorado. Since the move I have been temporarily using free email services such as netzero.com, juno.com, and bluelight.com to send email. These free services add advertisements to all email sent through their servers. I can't stop that until I get resettled and signup with a paid Internet Service Provider again. Also, the Rootsweb email servers add advertisements to all the Forum email. I have the power to turn those off, but I choose not to because Rootsweb needs the revenue they get from these advertisements. Since Rootsweb provides us with this free service, I choose to help them make some money to pay the bills. To be considered Spam an email message has to be "unsolicited" email. The Forum email is solicited by each subscribe by the act of subscribing. Therefore, Forum email cannot be considered as Spam email. Each subscriber has the power to stop the messages by unsubscribing. Steven J. Coker Forum Manager steve@scroots.org Shop online without a credit card http://www.rocketcash.com RocketCash, a NetZero subsidiary