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From: Phlete Teachout <>
Subject: Re: Thinking of making list private...please help
Date: Sun, 8 Jun 1997 19:32:43 -0400 (EDT)


On Sun, 8 Jun 1997, Tracey Converse wrote:

> I'm the owner of the GenTips list and I've been having continuing problems
> with the posting of unsub messages and messages that should be privately
> sent. After banging my head against the wall for months now, I'm ready to
> make the list private. How do you go about it and what are some of the pros
> and cons of it?

Both of my lists are VERY small; and they are both private and restricted.
Since I do my mail reading on-line, it's pretty simple for me to cut
addresses and paste into the RootsWeb Utility page as appropriate. I
suspect this might get to be a chore if I were getting 10 or 20 (or more)
subscribe messages a day.

As for people sending messages that should be private - can't help you
there. Education of what you (as list owner) consider appropriate to post
would be the only out other than suspending a subscription or two 'til
folks figured it out.

Regards,
- fleet -
P. R. "Fleet" Teachout

http://www.eaglenet.com/fteacho

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