[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Friendly reminder from your List Administrator

[Jerry Frank]

Our mailing list membership seems to have peaked at about 350 
subscribers.  It fluctuates up and down to 355 as people join or leave the 
list.

I would like to thank everyone for the manner in which you responsibly post 
and reply to messages.  I have had very few problems with anyone not 
following the guidelines for our list.  My job as administrator is made 
much easier by not having to deal with complaints and disputes which do 
occur on some other lists that I have subscribed to.

We would like to encourage your membership and involvement with SGGEE, 
especially if you have connections to Russian Poland and Volhynia.  You 
will find it an excellent source of material, databases, resources, 
etc.  http://www.sggee.org

Whether a member or not, we also encourage you to attend our convention in 
Edmonton this summer.
http://members.shaw.ca/sgecvn/

There is ONE way in which you can help me a little more.  For those of you 
that have requested help with this, please don't take personal 
offence.  You are simply one of many.  The most common thing that I have to 
do as List Administrator is to respond to problems relative to 
unsubscribing or changing an address.  On the first day of every month we 
send out a reminder message about how to make changes to your 
subscription.  Everything can be done directly on the web without involving 
either myself or the mailing list.  The process is easy and painless.

Go to http://eclipse.sggee.org/mailman/listinfo/ger-poland-volhynia

At the bottom is the "Edit Options" button.  Simply follow the instruction 
to enter your email address and click the button.  You will be taken to a 
page where you can, among other things:

- put your mail on hold while you are on holidays
- unsubscribe
- change your password

Please note that you CANNOT simply change an email address.  Because of the 
password protection (which prevents someone else from tampering with your 
subscription), the only way to change an address is to unsubscribe the old 
one and resubscribe with the new.  This small inconvenience is not to make 
less work for me (though it helps) but is designed to PROTECT your 
subscription.

If you have any questions or comments about this message, please respond to 
me privately rather than through the mailing list.

Thank you for your participation and happy ancestor hunting!



Jerry Frank - List Administrator for [Ger-Poland-Volhynia]
GPVListAdmin at sggee.org
http://www.sggee.org/listserv.html