HELLO ALL I subscribed a few days ago and as yet have not seen the first piece of mail nor have I received a note from the list owner telling me welcome aboard. Is there something wrong with what I did or is it the list. Ruth

Popupra@aol.com wrote: > HELLO ALL > I subscribed a few days ago and as yet have not seen the first piece of > mail nor have I received a note from the list owner telling me welcome > aboard. Is there something wrong with what I did or is it the list. > Ruth Hi Ruth, I'm sorry to hear of your troubles with the mail list. We are a pretty quiet group, but there are a few things extraordinary about your timing. First of all, there was a major breakdown of the server that carries this list. This occurred last Saturday and the Rootsweb team worked day and night until it was finally fixed to the point of where we could once again start sending and receiving emails again. I saw your subscription come in and made a point of checking to see if you were subscribed okay. Everything looked just fine. Because I am running more than one website and mail list, I don't get the opportunity to write a personal "welcome to the list" to everyone who subscribes, but there should have been a mailing of sorts explaining how to subscribe and unsubscribe, etc. It's the generic message that lets you know that you are subscribed. I didn't realize you didn't receive this message, but I do believe that you didn't get this message because of the timing of the breakdown and that I hadn't had a chance to go in and change the settings of the list back to what they normally are (which included adding the prepend to the subject line -- so there were a few postings that didn't show the [WIEAUCLA] as this one does.) There are still a few bugs that need to be worked out in the system, but I'm hoping that this will all be settled soon. In the meantime, you are welcome to go into our archived at http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/WIEAUCLA/ and read through what we've been doing here on the mail list. Your message (above) came through just fine on the list, so I would say that your subscription is okay too. I am sending a copy of this to both the list and to you personally, Ruth. Please let me know if you do not receive the copy from the list, but give it some time to come through, because of those nasty glitches that are still affecting the list. Thank you for writing and checking on this. In the future, if you have problems, please feel free to contact me directly at the email address below, or you can also contact me at mailto:WIEAUCLA-admin@rootsweb.com I hope you will enjoy being with us on this list. We are happy to have you here! -- Nance (list admin) mailto:nsampson@spacestar.net