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    1. [TNWARREN] Subject Lines and Thank You Notes
    2. Fred Smoot
    3. Greetings all, There is a very good reason to make the "Subject" line match the actual subject of your e-mail. tnwarren is a RootsWeb provided mailing list. RootsWeb also provides a threaded archives of their mailing lists: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/ Here, if you typed in tnwarren, you would get the TNWARREN-L Archives page. Then you could select the month that interests you. If you picked November 2002, you could see *by subject line* all November 2002 postings to this list including Old Philadelphia Cemetery. Let's assume that sometime in the future, someone had an interest in Mt Zion cemetery, they might bypass anything that has an "Old Philadelphia Cemetery" subject line, not knowing that the real subject had changed to Mt Zion. If you submit a genealogical query to the list, you should put the surname of your person or family in the subject line. The idea here is to get folk to answer your query -- but if you post to the list using the wrong subject line, then you might miss a once-in-a-lifetime golden opportunity. So just bookmark the list's addy, in our case it is [email protected] -- and then send a fresh e-mail with a proper subject line. Thank You Notes and other non-genealogical postings may seem courteous however please consider that tnwarren has 365 subscribers and by posting unnecessary items to the list forces *every* subscriber to read them. Some folk get agitated by these type of postings. I know, they write to me personally and tell me so. Also, these postings get automatically archived by RootsWeb. Here the unnecessary gets included in with the good stuff. Personal postings should go to the individual concerned and not to the list. Regards, Fred Smoot TNWARREN-L list administrator [email protected]

    11/05/2002 05:56:01