Thank you for your advice & suggestion(s) Marleen. I personally apologize for not sending my request to the individual that has made this offer, but I've been off-list for about 2 weeks & only saw the request's.. But complaints about our mess up are also irrelevant messages & as a listowner I can see both sides & should have known better too. :) Alli ---------- > From: Marleen Van Horne <msvnhrn@jps.net> > To: WHITE-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [WHITE] Courtesy on the List > Date: Monday, April 03, 2000 12:15 PM > > Hello All, > > I am not the list manager, although I do manage 8 other RootsWeb > surname lists, and I hope none of you take personally what I am going > to say, I do not mean it that way. > > An offer was made for copies of a letter regarding a White Feud. If > you want copies of this letter, you were requested to respond directly > to the person making the request. So far, about 20 members of the > list have responded to the list, and not the person making the offer. > This is a large list, the avalanche has only begun. > > The way this list is set up when you click Reply, or Reply All the > list address automatically comes up in the To portion of the message. > In order for the message to go to the individual you really want to > reply to, you must delete the list address and type or paste in the > address of the person you want it to go to. > > By addressing your "me too" messages to a specific person, you do not > annoy other list members, and more importantly, you do not clutter up > the list archive with irrelevant messages and waste space at RootsWeb. > > Please keep this in mind when responding to generous offers, such as > the White Feud. > > Marleen Van Horne >