From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Sun Jul 16 20:02:16 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k6H22Gjb017166; Sun, 16 Jul 2006 20:02:16 -0600 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 k6H22EuB022887 for ; Sun, 16 Jul 2006 20:02:14 -0600 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 k6GNOrFI001354 for ; Sun, 16 Jul 2006 19:24:53 -0400 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k6GNOr09001353 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Sun, 16 Jul 2006 19:24:53 -0400 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 k6GKKSFI000971 for ; Sun, 16 Jul 2006 16:20:28 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k6GMveav031625 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Sun, 16 Jul 2006 16:57:40 -0600 X-Envelope-From: harrison28@gmail.com Sun Jul 16 16:57:40 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k6GMvejb031614 for ; Sun, 16 Jul 2006 16:57:40 -0600 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.173]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k6GMvbpk000636 for ; Sun, 16 Jul 2006 16:57:38 -0600 Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id m2so604880uge for ; Sun, 16 Jul 2006 15:58:08 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=rLHA0VFLTlpXr8foCzOhdf31+4RJfdBq9pXyYA7S45/A8OfDwmmNiihJfZ8OJnbCqPWZI00M8Zr23PeW1tyH8rSm6mXpYB7BbN1XDGxDSHh6BYtAwGADndSTkFI4E0TX0tyCEQ4jzV5yf0BG+sKj8E80t4tT4/Z/GBeEYT1nzfI= Received: by 10.66.243.2 with SMTP id q2mr1913078ugh; Sun, 16 Jul 2006 15:58:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.67.25.1 with HTTP; Sun, 16 Jul 2006 15:58:08 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <95b5b6b90607161558s3af84e1s7b24eaa800213f7a@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2006 17:58:08 -0500 From: "Kathie Harrison" To: SueNY Cc: ROOTS-M@rootsweb.com In-Reply-To: <01b801c6a915$6c2047a0$a1ad4b0c@host> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <2d3.b2362dd.31eb0290@aol.com> <005901c6a8e1$e9f7d8c0$6401a8c0@oemcomputer> <01b801c6a915$6c2047a0$a1ad4b0c@host> X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 Subject: [ROOTS-L] Re: Sloppy Requests!! Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com As a list admin for several Rootsweb lists, I can tell you that many people do not bother to read the welcome message that is automatically sent out to each and every subscriber of the list that they joined. Many of the list admins compose their own tailor made FAQ's while others do not. But in the end, it is up to anyone who subscribes to a list to be sure they know how and what is applicable to post to these lists as far as what the list topic is, etc. But I can tell you from experience that these guidelines usually work best as a rule of thumb. Full Name of ancestor you are researching [LAST/SURNAME in CAPITAL LETTERS] Area: STATE/COUNTRY, COUNTY/REGION TIME FRAME: such as: b.1850 KY d. 1910 IA A proper SUBJECT in the SUBJECT line. Not [DIGEST], Re: or NO SUBJECT. The SUBJECT line should CALL ATTENTION to what your message is about. Such as Wm. Brice HARRISON b.1813 KY>IA>NE - need obit And by all means, don't include the ENTIRE message that you are replying to! Just include a small portion of it and don't include the taglines from the list in that message. Keep it SHORT, SIMPLE & SWEET. You just might make that cousin connection! On 7/16/06, SueNY wrote: > What this list needs is an FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) list that can be > posted monthly so that newbies are always being informed.It would list the -- Kathie Harrison Family Trees Grow with Love Ancestral Whispers http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~irishrose/