From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Mon Jul 17 15:00:30 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 k6HL0Ujb030422; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 15:00:30 -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 k6HL0NiP020296 for ; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 15:00:23 -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 k6HIMQFI004431 for ; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 14:22:26 -0400 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k6HIMQ3x004430 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 14:22:26 -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 k6HHo9FI004331 for ; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 13:50:10 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k6HKRBsE003587 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 14:27:11 -0600 X-Envelope-From: omchodoy@gmail.com Mon Jul 17 14:27:11 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 k6HKRBjb003576 for ; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 14:27:11 -0600 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.174]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k6HKR8dG029318 for ; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 14:27:09 -0600 Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id m2so1053048uge for ; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 13:27:49 -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:references; b=ApouZEH/zVDaapJ4vKG6rB+Wg9c3eKygPB0fbeJgwxMQfGqK3Pq41XD6XUDfJTBUb0Pti/mfrLkBXdtXHp5c2pj1D10acEadjXjCatz79YsyGVPgz5DUsJoi1GNcdSmjniAv1I6nC041vsGwe9z54bdN1Ckn0eWKxc4D1obK8Q4= Received: by 10.67.101.8 with SMTP id d8mr2872312ugm; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 13:27:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.66.220.16 with HTTP; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 13:27:49 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 13:27:49 -0700 From: Colleen To: "Flo Nell Ozell" Subject: Re: [ROOTS-L] More on sloppy requests Cc: ROOTS-M@rootsweb.com In-Reply-To: <20060717133950.3659.qmail@web35106.mail.mud.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed References: <20060717133950.3659.qmail@web35106.mail.mud.yahoo.com> 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 Generally speaking, I don't. One, if someone posts a request to the list and someone answers only to the post-er, others may continue searching. Second, if the reply contains any information on the process used to find the info or a resource used to find the info that others may not know about, posting to the list can help far more than just the one who posted the request. On 7/17/06, Flo Nell Ozell wrote: > I wish those who have a personal reply that applies to only one person on > the list would do so with a message to that person's email address, rather > than to the list. Some of us subscribe to a bunch of lists and our mail > boxes get clogged with messages such as, "Thank you, Suzy" or "Is he related > to Tom of Podunk?". These messages are absolutely meaningless to the rest of > us but require us to open, read and delete them. I have done this with > hundreds of them. > > The e-mail address of the sender of the message to which you are replying > is always on the "From" line at the top of the message. > > > --------------------------------- > Do you Yahoo!? > Get on board. You're invited to try the new Yahoo! Mail Beta. > > -- Colleen www.omchodoy.blogspot.com www.onlyingenealogy.blogspot.com