Bob, Once people are approved, you loose control of their membership, by that, I mean you have no conventional genealogy to help others. Almost all of the rejects do not hane the right sex or yDNA for the project. I did send a feedback message and was told they hane no plans to change the situation. Marleen Van Horne

No plans to change it? Talk about hubris. FTDNA seems to forget they can't treat volunteers like employees... I have a dual geographic project where both men and women can join, but with strict requirements as to the geographic origin of the earliest ancestor. Despite all the explanation of the requirements on the project's web sites, I still get two or three unacceptable applicants for every acceptable one. This is the project where the new GAP is a special nightmare. Diana > -----Original Message----- > From: y-dna-projects-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:y-dna-projects- > bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Marleen Van Horne > Sent: Friday, December 03, 2010 9:59 AM > To: y-dna-projects@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [Y-DNA-projects] join authorization > > Bob, > > Once people are approved, you loose control of their membership, by that, I mean you > have no conventional genealogy to help others. Almost all of the rejects do not hane the > right sex or yDNA for the project. > > I did send a feedback message and was told they hane no plans to change the situation. > > Marleen Van Horne > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to Y-DNA-PROJECTS- > request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject > and the body of the message

I just ran an experiment. I went to the Blair DNA Join request form and requested to join the Project using my wife's name and email address. This request was sent to my Blair DNA email address with a link back to the the request form. The email I received did NOT include the email address of the person requesting to join the project. I then went back to the form and selected more information and asked for pedigree information. The following was sent to my wife's email address: Message From Blair Group Administrator: Please send me more information about your Blair pedigree Click this link to reply to the message: http://www.familytreedna.com/project-join-request.aspx?id=b51dc5f9-8f89-47db-9604-??a?????0???& (this link has been altered) Thank you, Family Tree DNA When I followed the link it took me back to a page that had no useful information and no possible way to reply to my request for more information. I have sent a copy of this message to Family Tree DNA. /*Scottish DNA - Better than Life Insurance* /*John* ------------------------------------ John A. Blair Haywards Heath, England _http://blairdna.com_ _mailto:j_blair@blairdna.com_ BLAIR DNA Project Administrator

Just a follow-up to my last email. The link is now working and I (as my wife) was able to respond to the request for more information. This system still does not give the Project Administrator an email address for the join requester the way the old system did which means the requester and the PA must communicate through the form on the website rather than being able to directly the way we use to. This is a pain in the a%%. I will bring this to FTDNA attention, but from other comments I read they don't seem too interested in changing this. /*Scottish DNA - Better than Life Insurance* /*John* ------------------------------------ John A. Blair Haywards Heath, England _http://blairdna.com_ _mailto:j_blair@blairdna.com_ BLAIR DNA Project Administrator On 12/3/2010 5:32 PM, John A. Blair wrote: > I just ran an experiment. I went to the Blair DNA Join request form and > requested to join the Project using my wife's name and email address. > This request was sent to my Blair DNA email address with a link back to > the the request form. The email I received did NOT include the email > address of the person requesting to join the project. > > I then went back to the form and selected more information and asked for > pedigree information. The following was sent to my wife's email address: > > Message From Blair Group Administrator: > Please send me more information about your Blair pedigree > Click this link to reply to the message: > http://www.familytreedna.com/project-join-request.aspx?id=b51dc5f9-8f89-47db-9604-??a?????0???& > (this link has been altered) > > Thank you, > Family Tree DNA > > When I followed the link it took me back to a page that had no useful > information and no possible way to reply to my request for more information. > > I have sent a copy of this message to Family Tree DNA. > > /*Scottish DNA - Better than Life Insurance* > /*John* > ------------------------------------ > John A. Blair > Haywards Heath, England > _http://blairdna.com_ > _mailto:j_blair@blairdna.com_ > BLAIR DNA Project Administrator > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to Y-DNA-PROJECTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > >