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From: Stuart Morgan <>
Subject: Re: NEW British-Genealogy.com BRITISH MAILING LISTS AND WEB SITE
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 14:21:13 +0000
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("patricia salter") was last heard saying
the following:

>Why doesnt everybody stop moaning about the new mailing list..........either
>join it or dont join it, the decision is yours, but dont keep wasting
>bandwidth on all these silly complaints, nearly all the postings on this
>list over the last couple of days have been on this
>subject...........Genealogy....whats that?


Patricia, I agree that this isn't the best place to hold the
disussion, but then the announcement was made here in the first place.

Its not a question of joining or not joining a list, I feel you've
entirely missed the point. The effect of duplicate lists is to further
sub-divide the community and therefore the quality of all the lists.
What as a community we should be doing instead is consolidating
information and resources. Now if rootsweb could be persuaded to close
down the existing lists then we would definately be in a better
position, but I don't forsee that happening.

Equally but not relevant to this discussion, more effort should
probably be made by the community to combine information from the
myriad of indexes, transcriptions and web sites out there. Instead,
probably with the best of intentions, but more often a desire to carve
out their 'territory' many groups and individuals have set up their
own systems or sites.
--
Stuart Morgan
Family Tree Site: http://www.tase.co.uk/
Researching: Morgan, Calnan, Greenshields, Dean, Oxley, Mason, Beardsall, Martin, Langdon
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