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From: "Janie Hinton" <>
Subject: Re: Delete
Date: Tue, 2 Nov 1999 07:35:29 -0600


Thank you so much Gus. I hope my disgruntled friend reads this.

Janie Brown Hinton

Surnames researching: B*R*O*W*N, S*C*O*T*T, H*A*Y*S,
M*A*S*S*I*N*G*I*L*L, B*U*R*N*S, C*A*T*E*S, C*O*L*E*M*A*N,
D*U*R*H*A*M, H*I*N*T*O*N, L*I*N*D*S*E*Y, L*O*W*R*Y,
M*A*R*S*H*A*L*L, P*I*E*R*C*E, R*A*W*L*I*N*S*O*N, F*U*L*G*H*U*M,
R*E*Y*N*O*L*D*S, H*E*N*R*Y
-----Original Message-----
From: Gus Carroll <>
To: <>
Date: Monday, November 01, 1999 9:56 AM
Subject: Re: Delete


>Although I'm not Gen-Newbie Admin, I think I may be able to explain this,
while using an example:
>
>Rootsweb has an excellent search engine, where you can search a particular
list or all posts. Many folks use it to look for occurances of surnames,
then read the found messages hoping for a "hit" for their family.
>
>Let's assume that you have a 5th cousin, twice removed that you've never
heard of who is also searching for your gggrandfather Abner T. HAYS.
>
>If you are using a signature block like you show below in ALL your message,
when your cousin searches for HAYS, she will NOT make hits on ALL your
posts.
>
>If you do a roll call message for Abner T. HAYS, with
born/died/married/children, etc. then the cousin WOULD make a hit on ONLY
THAT POST of yours. She could then email you to check further on your
common relative.
>
>
>HOWEVER, if you are using a signature block with the name HAYS in plain
text, then EVERY MESSAGE OF YOURS would be a "hit". After the 3rd or 4th
"hit" on your messages where the only occurance of HAYS was in your
signature block, the cousin would get rather disgusted with all the false
hits and promptly start to ignore ALL of your posts, including the one where
you do the roll call for ole gggrandfather Abner. The cousin and you would
never make contact.
>
>Since one of the primary reasons of posting your information on the Web is
to make contact with long lost relatives, why would you want to do something
to make such contact more difficult?
>
>L8r,
>
>Sarge aka Gus
>
>
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>----------
>> I would much rather be able to just type surnames in all caps, but when I
>> started including them in my signature I got replies form several lists
>> saying I needed to do it this way. Something about people researching
the
>> same names might possibly get hundreds of hits on their e-mail just
because
>> my names are included in my signature. Typing them this way disables
that.
>>
>> Would someone at Gen-Newbie explain this further to this person. Thank
you.
>>
>> Janie Brown Hinton
>>
>> Surnames researching: B*R*O*W*N, S*C*O*T*T, H*A*Y*S,
>> M*A*S*S*I*N*G*I*L*L, B*U*R*N*S, C*A*T*E*S, C*O*L*E*M*A*N,
>> D*U*R*H*A*M, H*I*N*T*O*N, L*I*N*D*S*E*Y, L*O*W*R*Y,
>> M*A*R*S*H*A*L*L, P*I*E*R*C*E, R*A*W*L*I*N*S*O*N, F*U*L*G*H*U*M,
>> R*E*Y*N*O*L*D*S, H*E*N*R*Y
>
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