If that mail list is on Rootsweb, I don't believe you can delete it, or get rid of it. It will be there forever. You don't have to mention the list on your county web site, though. I can't get a mail list called NCROWAN-L because someone ordered one for NCROWEN-L and Rootsweb doesn't delete mail lists. (LOL) David On Thu, 21 Oct 1999 WLGreene1@aol.com wrote: > I had been looking for a volunteer to take over the Loudoun County Mail List > ever since I became county coordinator a few months ago. I contacted the > previous county coordinator Sue Beach and told her of my plans to discontinue > the list and she had informed me that the list was not very active when she > had it. She said it had declined in its use in recent years. I have a > cousin who is subscribed to the list and she told also told me the same thing > that she never seen any activity on it the whole time she had been subscribed > to it. I put up an advertisement on the Loudoun County web page asking for a > volunteer to take over the list but it seemed like nobody was paying any > attention to the notice. So I changed the wording of the advertisement and > said I would discontinue the list after January 1st, 2000 and I asked people > to contact me if they had any questions about it. I figured this was OK to > do since there was no activity on the list. I had plans to contact members > on the list about a volunteer but I didn't notify them right away. A month > goes by and not one person contacted me about the list. One day out of the > blue, I get this angry email from a list member demanding to know why I'm > getting rid of the mail list. I discovered that when I put up the notice to > discontinue the list, the list became alive with a flurry of activity > gossiping about me getting rid of the list. My cousin told me that she had > never seen the list so "shook up" and that I had caused the most activity she > had ever seen on it. I explained my situation to this person as pleasantly > as I could and defended my reasons for getting rid of the list. The good > news is this person is now the new mail list owner. Now I'm waiting for the > list to calm down and go back to the same state it was in before this whole > thing got started. I guess the only time people show their appreciation is > when they think they are going to lose something. It seems to me that being > a USGenWeb volunteer can be a thankless job sometimes. > > I wanted to let others coordinators know what to expect from list members if > they have plans to get rid of their lists. If I had it to do this all over > again, I would have done it differently. > > Thanks, > > Wayne Greene > Loudoun County Coordinator > > dmorgan@efn.org David W. Morgan Honolulu Hawaii http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ga/gafiles.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/nm/nmfiles.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ok/okfiles.htm