Dear Sam, I am the List Admin., and my e-mail address is ttg-inc@attbi.com, I have no problem with complaints being place for all to see as long as they are done in a constructive way not in a "flame" way. Some good points. I agree we tend to forget that we have people from down under as well over in Europe on this list and our "American" terms may not make any since to yah'll. I know on a medieval e-mail list most of the members are in Europe so I have to always use the "USA" on things and spell out states etc. for them. On the wasted band space, your absolutely right and there are several of us that forget to clear off the old e-mails in our messages... The other problem is people who have set their e-mail package to not forward the last message with the message, and you have no clue what the person is talking about, because the message they are responding to, was sent originally a month before. Becky Thill ttg-inc@attbi.com List Admin. - WINN-L & WYNNE GENEALOGY SOCIETY-L ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sam Point" <spoint@optusnet.com.au> To: <WINN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, June 01, 2003 6:56 AM Subject: [WINN] Just a note > Hi all, just a quick hello from "Downunder" from a descendant of Isaac > "James" Winn b:1816 Lincolnshire? England. > Emigrated 1844 to New South Wales, Australia. 7 Generations and over > 250 descendants later we are still here :-). > As well as other descendants of other Winn/Wynn/Wynne's that emigrated > from the British Isles to Australia. > > Just so you know, Winn/Wynn/Wynne families and Descendants exist not > only in USA so some of us not living in the > USA may have trouble placing some of the references a lot of you use. > i.e: CO, NE, MN, MT, PA, (Well to me as a radio > Technician the PA is the Final Amplifier section in a radio transmitter > :-) .) NY is New York State I think, but do you > know what NSW, QLD, ACT and NT mean? Let alone NI, TI, LHI and FNQ. PA > here is also sometimes used in > references to "Port Arthur" a notorious convict penal (Read Gaol (Jail)) > establishment in Tasmania (TAS.). Remember > this list is supposed to be International. > Oh yeah for those interested: > NSW=New South Wales, QLD=Queensland, ACT=Australian Capital Territory, > NT=Northern Territory and the others, > NI=Norfolk Island (Another Penal Settlement and the resettling location > for many of the descendants of the mutineers of the HMS Bounty.) > TI=Thursday Island, LHI=Lord Howe Island and FNQ=Far North Queensland. > > Also a quick thought, has anybody looked at how much wasted bandspace is > taken up by "Message Quotes", included > in full, in the replies to posted messages? One member of the list > consistantly includes upto 4 nested "Quotes" in their > replies to the list and as a "Daily Digest" subscriber, it is annoying > going through all the previously posted messages > yet again to get to the next message in a digest. > > By the way none of this is meant as a "Flame" of any type, just a little > suggestive advice ;-) , as we all are probably related somewhere in the > the past, as all Winn/Wynn/Wynne families originate from the British > Isles! It's just I haven't seen any > reference to a "Moderator" for this list and so don't know who else to > talk to. > > Regards, (Don't shoot the message bearer!) > Sam Point > ( Isaac "James" Winn/Harriet Coupland > -Robert Coupland Winn/Annie Maria Webb > -Charles Winn/Edith Rescorl > -Elsie Winn/Alan Lennartz > -Joan Winn Lennartz/Maurice Point > -Me.) > >