From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Wed Feb 8 04:32:12 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 k18BWCE0024405; Wed, 8 Feb 2006 04:32:12 -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 k18BW1fP025939 for ; Wed, 8 Feb 2006 04:32:01 -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 k1893OFI029142 for ; Wed, 8 Feb 2006 04:03:24 -0500 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k1893N5Q029141 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Wed, 8 Feb 2006 04:03:23 -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 k185USFI028153 for ; Wed, 8 Feb 2006 00:30:28 -0500 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k187wjen006740 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Wed, 8 Feb 2006 00:58:45 -0700 X-Envelope-From: mputman@gohighspeed.com Wed Feb 8 00:58:45 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 k187wjE0006729 for ; Wed, 8 Feb 2006 00:58:45 -0700 Received: from mail.my180.net (mail.my180.net [216.229.188.250]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k187whe7026082 for ; Wed, 8 Feb 2006 00:58:44 -0700 Received: (qmail 9186 invoked by uid 110); 8 Feb 2006 07:32:50 -0000 Received: from 64-35-129-165.gohighspeed.com (HELO eozfaqvf) (64.35.129.165) by mail.my180.net with SMTP; 8 Feb 2006 07:32:50 -0000 Message-ID: <004e01c62c81$16395fe0$a5812340@eozfaqvf> From: "Mary Putman" To: Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2006 23:27:14 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 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 Subject: [ROOTS-L] Postings to Genealogical Sites I appreciated Anna's and Therese's kind words in their last postings to the Roots-L list. Many times I have hated to read postings with mispelled words, all the postings in lower or upper case, or postings that do not give at least a county, state, or approximate year. I can ignore most of the forgoing things, but on another list, I have read a 287-word posting in lower case...NO PUNCTUATION! That gets to me real fast! Just because I have fairly good English and usually excellent spelling skills, I cannot and should not criticize others who can't do these skills well. We are a large group of people from varied backgrounds, with a very wide variety of skills. We are not all proficient in all areas. Some of us maybe barely made it through elementary school or high school. Some of us have some college or maybe lot of college. I don't doubt that there may be even a few holding doctorates on the list. I have known college graduates that couldn't spell worth two cen! ts. We are on this list to help each other and share when and where we can. It's a good group, but please remember that we are not here to criticize. Who are we to judge another person's skills or lack of skills? Though I've been at my search for 36 years, I'm still learning too, especially computer skills! Mary in Washington State