I, for one do not have time to maintain a County list. I do not think it is needed. I don't belive there would be that many that would sign up for a list in the small counties. Some of the larger counties maybe but not the smaller ones. Athol At 06:58 AM 11/20/97 -0600, you wrote: >Does each county really need it's own mailing list? Do we have the >readership to support this? Reason being is that each county having it's >own mailing list could easily dilute say the Tenn Genealogy Mail-list. Many >times the "cross-county-lines" assistance is what is needed. Or would the >mailing lists become nothing more than duplicate messages, by that I mean >the same ones posted in the county's mail-list and the Tenn Genealogy >Mail-list. > >Just some questions & comments...thoughts from others? Please chime in.... > > >Jack Cross >[email protected] >http://fp.cyberstation.net/jcross > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Bridgett Smith [SMTP:[email protected]] >> Sent: Thursday, November 20, 1997 1:14 AM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: State and County Research Mailing Lists >> >> >> >Subject: State and County Research Mailing Lists >> >Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 18:04:15 -0800 >> >From: Brian Leverich <[email protected]> >> > >> > >> > >> >Hi - >> > >> >Just a reminder: RootsWeb will provide state and county research >> >mailing lists to any SCs and CCs who would like to own them. >> > >> >Lists can be requested by using the Web form at: >> > >> > http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/members/listrequest.html >> > >> >The message about being a RootsWeb Sponsor doesn't apply in this >> >case, and RootsWeb will host lists for states and counties who use >> >other Web servers as well as RootsWeb's. >> > >> >State and county coordinators should look at the way other states >> >and county lists are named ( http://www.rootsweb.com/~maillist/ ), >> >and name their lists accordingly. Later on that will help us >> >integrate the lists into their Websites with some neat whizziness. >> > >> >I'd encourage SCs to encourage their CCs to host lists: other sites >> >are beginning to offer county lists now, and CCs who don't start >> >lists soon may have a harder time building up a readership if they >> >ever do decide to host lists in the future. >> > >> >So who says I'm not biased towards USGenWeb? I'd like to see the >> >state and county research lists be a USGenWeb feature and not >> >somebody else's. Cheers, B. >> > >> > >> >-- >> >Dr. Brian Leverich Co-moderator, soc.genealogy.methods/GENMTD-L >> >RootsWeb Genealogical Data Cooperative http://www.rootsweb.com/ >> >P.O. Box 6798, Frazier Park, CA 93222-6798 [email protected] >> > >> > >> > >> >> Bridgett Edwards Smith >> [email protected] >> >> >> ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~~*~*~* >> >> The Bible Family: http://www.rootsweb.com/~bible >> Home Page: http://www.wizard.com/~bascs/mypage.htm >> Greene Co TN: http://www.usit.net/tngenweb/greene >> >> > > > **************************************************************************** ******** Athol K. Foster Coordonator for Dekalb Co., Tn. <http://www.usit.net/tngenweb/dekalb/> My Home Page <http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Ranch/3627>