There are pros and cons on this issue. There was a list established for Greene County sometime last summer [not by me, by someone else who asked my permission before establishing the list]. Although I would have rather seen an "Upper E TN Regional" type of mailing list, this list was created. I also belong to TNRoots, and when TNGreene-L was first brought online, there was some cross posting, but not a great deal. About a month ago, I noticed that the postings to TNGreene has been on the decline. I do not know if it is that time of the year, as other lists I belong to also seem to be on the wane, or what the reason is for this decline. However, during it's peak, many people found information that might not have been found otherwise. There are a couple of people on the TNGreene list, that are busy with other things, and did not want the mass of TNROOTS people to know that they would do lookups for others. But easily handled the load from the smaller list. There are many of us whose ancestors hit an area and stayed put, mine are one of them. In this respect the specific list was more beneficial than the overall list. Personally, I gained more information from the few months on the TNGreene list than I did in the 2 years I've been on the TNROOTS list. All of this is from a personal point of view of course, and this issue with it's pros and cons was debated heavily on the TNRoots list when Kay Rockett posted the idea to the list for TNGreene. On the other hand, I belong to many mailing lists pertaining to genealogy, many of which are of a general nature, and know the feeling when I get a message that someone has posted to each and every list that I belong to -- but that is what a delete key is for <G>. Take care, Bridgett At 06:58 AM 11/20/97 -0600, Jack Cross 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 > 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