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From: "Chovhani" <>
Subject: Re: NEW British-Genealogy.com BRITISH MAILING LISTS AND WEB SITE
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 10:41:56 -0500
References: <8So+3QE0fkc+EA3i@neep.demon.co.uk> <3E7683F8.8090503@rmit.edu.au> <3e76a18d$0$9538$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au> <003001c2ed34$ec387340$88b01e3e@default> <8r9e7vg296u6l26tg7dg9gskq78mknc76p@4ax.com>


Of course you do realize how this mirrors the argument for a worldwide
standard in operating systems such as Windows?

--
Melanie

http://www3.sympatico.ca/melanie.boxall


"Stuart Morgan" <> wrote in message
news:...
> ("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
> * 1851 2% Lookups on Request *


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