I am forwarding this message to the list because I know there are a lot of fellow HOOD researchers out there. Hope to see you all soon on the list! > Fellow Hood Family researchers: > > I wanted you to know that I have set up a Hood Family Listserv (mailing & > discussion list), for the purpose of enabling you and me to exchange Hood > family genealogies, tips, queries, etc. by email. I have set it up as an > open (non-moderated) list, so that any member that sends a message will > automatically have the message forwarded to everyone else on the list. > > I did not want to limit it to the William Hood I am researching, but leave > it open to ALL Hoods in the US and elsewhere. I even named it the "Hoods > Everywhere" list. > > The advantage to a mailing list, as compared to the Hood Genforum > (http://www.genforum.com/Hood) is that everything flows by email in real > time. Of course, if the volume gets too large, this becomes a > disadvantage. There is also the possibility of spam email and flaming - > which I will control by dropping members that engage in it (I like to > think of the process as "dismembering") or, as a last resort, going to a > "moderated" list format (everything flows through me to the group). > > If you are interested in joining this, send an email to > "hood.family-subscribe@listbot.com" (without the quotes). You will > receive a verification message and instructions. > > If your email reader reads HTML, this should appear as a link for email > (if not, or if I did it wrong, it will be gibberish): > > <a > href="mailto:hood.family-subscribe@listbot.com">hood.family-subscribe@list > bot.com > > If you join and find it helpful, tell other Hood researchers not listed > above about it so they can join. If you do not find it helpful, tell me > so I can make it better! My email addresses are: > > hood.family@usa.net > roghood@fdic.gov > > Thank you. > > > Roger L. Hood > http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Plains/5875