From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Mon Feb 6 16:52:12 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k16NqCE0030618; Mon, 6 Feb 2006 16:52:12 -0700 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l.rootsweb.com [66.43.16.22]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k16NqCrH027298 for ; Mon, 6 Feb 2006 16:52:12 -0700 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l [127.0.0.1]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k16LNmFI014719 for ; Mon, 6 Feb 2006 16:23:49 -0500 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k16LNmiA014718 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Mon, 6 Feb 2006 16:23:48 -0500 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [66.43.27.41]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id k16KnPFI014590 for ; Mon, 6 Feb 2006 15:49:25 -0500 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k16NHb4x005584 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Mon, 6 Feb 2006 16:17:37 -0700 X-Envelope-From: ETMaddox@verizon.net Mon Feb 6 16:17:37 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k16NHbE0005570 for ; Mon, 6 Feb 2006 16:17:37 -0700 Received: from smtp103.vzn.mail.dcn.yahoo.com (smtp103.vzn.mail.dcn.yahoo.com [209.73.179.141]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id k16NHa3k009064 for ; Mon, 6 Feb 2006 16:17:37 -0700 Received: (qmail 30586 invoked from network); 6 Feb 2006 23:17:32 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO your-us67pi6luv.mshome.net) (etmaddox@verizon.net@70.108.197.127 with plain) by smtp103.vzn.mail.dcn.yahoo.com with SMTP; 6 Feb 2006 23:17:32 -0000 Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2006 18:17:33 -0500 From: ETM X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <1551417235.20060206181733@verizon.net> To: ROOTS-M@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [ROOTS-L] GEN-NEWBIE In-Reply-To: <000601c62b63$e4c15530$6b01a8c0@hpdesktop> References: <1324360475.20060206155239@verizon.net> <000601c62b63$e4c15530$6b01a8c0@hpdesktop> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com A reading of the welcome letter and the various references to the list make it very clear that it is not a list restricted only to discussions of genealogy. It is aimed at newcomers and the experienced who like to help are certainly always welcome, often the subscribers are new to both computers and the internet and many are just beginning genealogy research. For those who want tightly focused lists, there are some 29,000 Rootsweb mailing lists and people should be able to find a fit among them. General lists are precisely that, general lists. There are surname and locality lists that might be far more attractive to people who do not want general discussion lists. Gen-Newbie is aimed at internet users, often they are new users, though some who have been here awhile but want some coaching in a friendly environment and who often share their knowledge, like the freedom of a list that "discusses genealogy, family history, computer applications, and a wide variety of other topics with a goal of assisting anyone who wants 'community coaching' about the Internet, genealogy, computers, or whatever." The list's purpose is well spelled out, it's plain, what happens is that people join the list and then want to change the list to their idea of what a list should be. The list, however, has *never* changed its intent since it was created, for those who do not like lists with more than one subject focus it is not the place to be. I welcome people to the list, for what it is, not what you would like it to be. Elaine > That's fine but not what a mailing list is all > about.