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From: "Diane Sowden" <>
Subject: Re: [LO] Subscription fee for RootsWeb
Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2004 21:23:10 +0100
References: <NGBBKELOOLCKKECNIKCPGEHLLJAA.decann@infionline.net>


Oh David, you DID make me LAUGH!! Are you pulling your hair out now - AH! -
I can see that you have already!! Never mind - I will send you a wig to
wear!!

Diane ROFLOL!!
----- Original Message -----
From: "David E. Cann" <>
To: <>
Sent: Monday, September 06, 2004 9:00 PM
Subject: [LO] Subscription fee for RootsWeb


> If the subject line did not get someone's attention on this list, then
read
> on. I've been doing this List Admin thing for three years or more, and
this
> is a first for me.
>
> On a rather slow Labor Day (at least it is in Canada and the USA) weekend,
I
> have received a message from a lady on one of my lists wanting to know how
> she pays the renewal fee for her list subscription!!! After exchanging a
> couple of messages I determined that she has not received any mail on one
of
> my more quiet lists, and she was told by "a friend" that her subscription
> needed to be renewed. First of all, it is a quiet list, and this is also
a
> long weekend when a lot of folks are away, but when I checked the
> subscribers' list I found she was still on it. It took me another couple
of
> messages to convince her that she was not off the list and that it was
only
> slow at the moment, and I suggested that if she wanted to try it she might
> try to post a query (no "test message," please!) to the list and see if
she
> gets it back herself, but that turned out to be a mistake.
>
> She tried to post her query, but she did it in *.html format, and I am
sure
> everyone on this list knows what happened when she did. She has not
posted
> anything to the list before, at least not in my memory, so she was never
> aware what the difference was between *.html and text format, much less
> understand why RW requires the latter. In another couple of messages she
> told me "a friend gets color messages (her phrase for *.html) all the
time,
> so why can't I do it? It turns out "my friend" is subscribed to a list on
> another system that happens to allow it, but she still does not understand
> why we do not, and that she cannot post that way on my list.
>
> She then asked me how to post to RW in text format, when I have no idea in
> the world what software she uses or anything else, but by this time I am
> beginning to grit my teeth and lose some patience, and I just suggested
that
> she ask "my friend" how to do it using her software, because I do not
know,
> because she doesn't know herself. I noticed a short while ago that her
> message came to the list, so apparently she and "my friend" figured it
out,
> but just when I was thinking how slow things have been overall this
weekend,
> something like this comes along to change all that. Now I can wait on a
> rainy day here (Virginia suburbs of Washington, D. C.) and wait for what
is
> left of Hurricane Frances to arrive up here this week.
> David E. Cann
>
>
>
>
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