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From: "Darrell A. Martin" <>
Subject: Re: Name variation lists
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 15:58:56 -0500
In-Reply-To: <76.4407244.2729e0ac@aol.com>


At 02:31 PM 10/26/2000, wrote:
>Darrell-
>
>Well, I suspect you will hear some complaints now. What you have done is to
>attempt to "shut down" a list. While it is perfectly 'legal' to moderate a
>list and to have requests forward to you for review before adding new
>subscribers, it is NOT perfectly all right to involuntarily shut down a
>list--which is what you are doing.
>
>Joan

Hi, Joan:

I'm not trying to be sneaky here, or I would never have mentioned it. But
I'm not sure what you mean by "involuntarily shut down." There are NO
subscribers to RUSSEAU and never were -- so no archives, either, I believe.
Nope, just checked, no messages ever. That would, I think, make my
situation different from the GEDDIS and GADDIS lists in that both of those
lists have subscribers and a history. But the problem of spelling
variations and how to handle them remains.


Darrell A. Martin
RootsWeb admin: VTGEN, VTWINDSO, VTORANGE, VTCALEDO, VTLAMOIL,
F.ELCH, F.ORBUSH, L.AMSON, L.OWER, and R.OUSSEAU/R.USSEAU lists


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