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From: "JaSEn" <>
Subject: Re: [GERMANNA] Signature Lines on Email Posted to Mailing Lists (DON'T DO IT!)
Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2004 09:28:08 -0500
References: <6.0.2.0.2.20040131193439.07e27d70@mail.comcast.net>


>>Sgt George wrote:
> 2) Other extraneous information> ....URLs associated with your website;
your >>home page URL................are inappropriate and are not to be
included in
> your messages sent to Mailing Lists, Message Boards, or anywhere where
> you leave posts.
<<<<

Why not - if it is related to sharing genealogy research ???
Whose rule is this ??


----- Original Message -----
From: "List Manager" <>
To: <>
Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2004 7:46 PM
Subject: [GERMANNA] Signature Lines on Email Posted to Mailing Lists (DON'T
DO IT!)


> Just thought I would post a reminder to all subscribers of Lists I
> manage about automatic "Signature Lines" at the end of List posts.
>
> Here are things NOT allowed in Signature Lines:
>
> 1) Endless strings of surnames, permanently attached to and included as
> part of
> your signature line are inappropriate and are not to be included in
> messages
> sent to Mailing Lists, Message Boards, or anywhere else where you leave
> posts.
>
> 2) Other extraneous information, permanently attached to and included
> as part of
> your signature line, such as personal snail mail addresses; home or
> office
> phone or fax numbers; URLs associated with your website; your home page
> URL; your
> personal or office email address; your ICQ #; your family tree URL;
> URLs for all
> your surnames; "cutesy" sayings or quotes and biblical references or
> quotes,
> etc in an ad infinitum string, >
> Remember, I'm talking about *endless* strings of the above mentioned
> items
> attached to you signature line on a permanent basis, not the occasional
> piece of
> information of this nature that you may feel the need to send along
> with your
> message to the list; however, SURNAME lists in Signature Lines are
> NEVER
> appropriate.
>
> Let me explain the last sentence above.
>
> When you go to Rootsweb or Ancestry and do a search, let's say for DOE,
> and a poster has included a Signature Line that contains that surname,
> you
> will get a hit for posts by that poster, regardless of where he/she
> posted
> the message. It may have been in GEN-MAT (a List for advertising
> genealogy
> related materials for sale), VIRUS-DISCUSSION, COMPUTERS, EUDORA-
> WIN, FTM, etc., etc. When you do a search for a surname, you DON'T
> want to see all the non-genealogy Lists where posters put surnames in a
> Signature File at the end of all posts.
>
> REMEMBER, Rootsweb's rules are that ANY Signature Line must NOT
> exceed 4 lines, no matter what's in it.
>
> Further, I would suggest you not put your phone numbers, mailing
> addresses, ICQ Numbers, etc., in Signature Files. Dangerous!
>
> Regards,
> SgtGeorge
> George W. Durman
> List Manager
>
>
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