he is being affected by people clicking REPLY and not REPLY ALL a condition in the list settings that allows the responders to decide if the info should go to the list or to the person or both... if he gets posts to himself from others on the list to questions that WERE NOT originated by him then he is getting list distribution... if he is getting posts to himself from others on the list to questions that WERE originated by him then he is getting attention from the listers....as was his hope i presume.... if someone is sending a post to chris out of the blue, well, then he should at least respond that it should go to the list or to the other lister directly... or he could have responded in part, the reader seeing both his post and yours and clicking reply with the response going to chris as the last poster.... it all points to listers looking at the TO field before we click that SEND....and to make sure it is going to the one that really wanted it.... and the easiest way to make sure of that it to make it a REPLYALL response...it will be on the list for all the listers, teach us all, and will be in the archives for later, should the person wanting the info have a system crash or in case there is someone else in the future looking for that person.... ps....in the last two weeks, this list has not even had 200 emails...we have had a bunch, but not 200... perhaps it is a condition of several lists that he is on not replying correctly, or he is as i said, on a mailing list and didnt quite understand how they operate.... On 1/15/06, Trudie Thompson <trudie@pacificcoast.net> wrote: > I think you misunderstood Chris's question. When I sent a request to this > List someone kindly replied but it went to Chris not me. Chris pleasantly > sent the reply to me. He also gave me some valuable help with my request. > I believe this is what Chris was talking about, not the fact that he was > getting too many WorldWar2 messages as a subscriber. > > Cheers > Trudie > ----- Original Message ----- > From: ".... valentine53179" <valentine53179@gmail.com> > To: <WORLDWAR2-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2006 7:14 AM > Subject: Re: [WORLD WAR II] Emails > > > > you are talking about a LIST.. > > you are subscribed to a LIST > > a list works this way... > > peole subscribe to a list as yo have done > > then when someone sends in an email as you have done it gets > > distributed by a computer to all the people subscribed.. > > if you dont want to be on the list, then you must unsubscribe in > > accordance with the list instructions that ou received when you first > > joined... > > the > > benefits of a list are that you learn about things that you would not > > otherwise have learned or thought to ask... > > one never knows in reading what might be said that will point you in > > the correct direction or teach you how to do something that will make > > research easier... > > > > > > On 1/15/06, chriswickett@talk21.com <chriswickett@talk21.com> wrote: > > > Over the last week i have received around two hundred emails that should > have been sent to other listers.Has anyone else had this problem,all of > these emails have come from the america's regards chris. > > > Email chriswickett@talk21.com > > > > > > < Created and sent to you using the BT Easicom 1000 interactive > screenphone > > > > __________________________________________________ > > > Do You Yahoo!? > > > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > > > http://mail.yahoo.com > > > > > > > > > ==== WORLDWAR2 Mailing List ==== > > > Please do not send virus warnings to the list. If you have concerns > about a virus, contact your list admin or join > VIRUS-DISCUSSIONS-L@rootsweb.com subscribe in the subject line. We are an > international list. Please remember to tell us what country your ancestor > was from and what country you are in now if different. This helps us help > you. If you give dates please help us understand the date you are referring > to. For example: 4 Nov 1944 or Nov 4, 1944. > > > > > > ============================== > > > Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the > > > last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx > > > > > > > > > > ______________________________ > >