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From: "Ann Spiro" <>
Subject: Re: [IoW] Calling all IW Family History Society Members
Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 14:05:47 +0800
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OK Diane - I'll take it on for 3 months.

Ann
Perth, Western Australia
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From: "diana harding" <>
To: <>
Sent: Friday, May 23, 2003 2:04 AM
Subject: Re: [IoW] Calling all IW Family History Society Members


> Hi Ann
>
> <A good idea. I would help but can't sit on email all day. What does
> monitoring entail - as in how many hours per day/week.>
>
> In case anyone else is wondering what might be involved I'll send this to
> the List but don't want to clog it up with Family History Society stuff
>
> Am just looking for someone to give a flavour of the sort of topics that
> have been cropping up on the IW List or things that have prompted
> discussion or surnames that have been prominent or unusual. No-one could
> say much in half a page!
>
> I don't know if you get the List as individual messages or as Digest (to
> subscribe in Digest mode do as you did for subscribing to List mode but
> put a D where the L is in the address). Digest means you get the messages
> for a day or couple of days in one e-mail. I do it that way then if I
> don't have time to read the messages I just leave them in my IW List
> folder till the end of the week and read them then. (As I work and don't
> have a lot of time I find it particularly useful to do it this way on the
> bigger mailing lists - I just look at the subject lines of the messages on
> the Digest and only look at the individual messages I might be interested
> in.)
>
> So basically it's just a case of reading all the IW List messages over the
> 3 month period (rather than just the ones you're interested in) and
> sending me a brief summary. If you think you might like to give it a go
> why not look at the IW messages over the next couple of weeks and see if
> there's anything worth talking about. Am only wanting someone to do it
> for one quarter, then someone else for the next, and so on - there are
> enough people out there as we only have four issues per year:-)
>
> Given how small the IW List is and how short the messages usually are I
> wouldn't have thought it would take anyone more than 30 - 60 minutes a
> week at the outside. And if you normally read all the messages you get
> from
> the IW List anyway it'd only be a few minutes extra just to make a note of
> anything interesting and write it up into a paragraph at the end of the
> three months.
>
> I'll see what people think of the idea generally and whether I get enough
> offers to make it possible - it may not be an idea that others think would
> be useful anyway. Unfortunately I have a health problem which means that
> if I overdo things I collapse so I can't end up doing it all myself or
> I'll end up not being able to do the Journal at all!!
>
> Thanks for your interest
>
> Di
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ann Spiro <>
> To: diana harding <>;
> <>
> Date: 21 May 2003 08:54
> Subject: Re: [IoW] Calling all IW Family History Society Members
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