And you'd be amazed at the number of otherwise sane humans who block "unknown senders" not realizing that includes me and thee not just spammers. OTOH, I must say, since this look-up artist thing started back 10 years ago, I've only had two or three bad addresses and one of those was an amusing typo I'd have seen if I'd looked. Cheryl Julia A. Krutilla wrote: > My, my, don't we all wish e-mail address could remain the same. (I > don't want to > list all my e-mail changes since I started in '96.) > > We sometimes leave the out-of-date ones - hoping the volunteer will > eventually share > the new address - and sometimes others actives on the sites provide the > change. When > we have time we do a Google - hoping a recent query might provide the > new address. > > As someone who has been a volunteer coding web pages since ''97 and the > original > Roots Web - we OFTEN make the decision NOT to remove the link as we > frequently get an > up-date or a new volunteer - AS IT IS A REMINDER. > > Most likely a complaint will come from a newbie - who believes the > someone has ALL > their genealogy, doesn't want to use his own time in genealogy, and is a > recent computer > user. > > Successful genealogists all eventually learn that genealogy milestones > come with patience > and perseverance. > > That's why I like - "Links to external web sites are being provided as a > convenience and for > informational purposes only; they do not constitute an endorsement or > approval of any of > the products, services or opinions contained in any external web site." > > Most volunteers do check their links with regularity. It's just we > can't keep up with the > changes/drops of visitors and their ISPs with ESP. ;-) > > At 08:24 AM 7/29/2006, you wrote: > >> Will you please pass this message on to your state lists? >> >> Thanks >> >> Linda Haas Davenport >> NC USGenWeb Project >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: umpire@sbcglobal.net >> To: lhaasdav@cox.net >> Sent: Friday, July 28, 2006 5:55 PM >> Subject: Updates >> >> >> I have gone to several county sites in several different states >> and found that for the lookup volunteers the email addresses are >> not working or good addresses. Is there a way to get them updated >> from time to time? This would greatly help all the websites and >> researchers. >> >> >> >> Thanks for your time. >> >> >> >> Regards, >> >> Linda Williams >