The CONKLIN-L Mailing List Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) by Marc Nozell v1.00 Copyright (c) 1997, Marc Nozell This is the The CONKLIN-L Mailing List Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) and should answer most of your questions about the ``CONKLIN-L'' mailing list. If you have additional questions that are not addressed, then please send me mail at nozell@rootsweb.com ______________________________________________________________________ Table of Contents: 1. What is the purpose of CONKLIN-L? 2. Subscriptions to the list 2.1. How much does it cost to join the list? 2.2. How do I subscribe? 2.3. How do I unsubscribe? 3. Who is the list owner? What does he get paid for this position? 4. How do I send a query? 5. Using the CONKLIN-L mailing list 5.1. How do I post to the list? 5.2. Where can I read the old CONKLIN-L messages? 5.3. How do I send a query? 5.4. When should I reply to the entire mailing list and when should I reply to just the individual? 5.5. What can/should I send to the list? 5.6. How do I get the more recent version of the FAQ? 5.6.1. Via the Web 5.6.2. Via email 5.7. How do I search the email archives? 6. Surfing the web 6.1. Where is the offical CONKLIN-L web page? 7. Are there other mailing lists I can join? ______________________________________________________________________ 1. What is the purpose of CONKLIN-L? This is a mailing list for researchers of the surname CONKLIN/CONKLING anywhere, anytime, any spelling variation. 2. Subscriptions to the list This section covers how to join and leave the list and some background information. 2.1. How much does it cost to join the list? Like most mailing lists on the internet, joining and participating in CONKLIN-L is free. However, I would like to suggest, buy no means require, that you consider joining the RootsWeb Genealogy Data Cooperative which runs the machines that host the CONKLIN-L mailing list. You will find the Supporter and Sponsor levels are very reasonable and provide some added benefits. For more information, see the web page: http://www.rootsweb.com 2.2. How do I subscribe? This mailing list is managed by the SmartList software which is different than other mailing lists managed by Majordomo or LISTSERV. To subscribe, send mail to CONKLIN-L-request@rootsweb.com and put just the one word SUBSCRIBE in the body of message. Every mail client is different, but your message should look something like this: ______________________________________________________________________ To: CONKLIN-L-request@rootsweb.com Subject: SUBSCRIBE ______________________________________________________________________ Be sure not to put anything after that one word. If your mailer automatically includes a ``signature'', be sure to turn it off before you send the message. 2.3. How do I unsubscribe? This mailing list is managed by the SmartList software which is different than other mailing lists managed by Majordomo or LISTSERV. To unsubscribe, send mail to CONKLIN-L-request@rootsweb.com and put just the one word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of message. Every mail client is different, but your message should look something like this: ______________________________________________________________________ To: CONKLIN-L-request@rootsweb.com Subject: UNSUBSCRIBE ______________________________________________________________________ Be sure not to put anything after that one word. If your mailer automatically includes a ``signature'', be sure to turn it off before you send the message. 3. Who is the list owner? What does he get paid for this position? Marc Nozell is the list owner for CONKLIN-L. Send him mail if you have completely read this FAQ and still have problems. His preferred email address is: nozell@rootsweb.com, but nozell@wildcat.mv.com or nozell@zko.dec.com will also work. Do I get paid for this? Ha! Like most other mailing list owners, I support CONKLIN-L and associated web page on my own time with my own money. I do it because I'm working on tracing my New York ancestors, it is a way to make the internet a better and more useful place, and I enjoy doing it (usually ;-) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. How do I send a query? Send mail to CONKLIN-L@rootsweb.com, make sure you have a reasonable subject line (e.g. "David CONKLIN, Orange Co, NY") and provide enough information that someone can be of help. Be sure to include your return email address and your real name. Some mailers don't properly display a return email address, so this is very important. Also including your real name is just a nice thing to do. No one likes chatting with someone known only as "SAMJ46198@AOL.COM" or "71234.987@compuserve.com" 5. Using the CONKLIN-L mailing list 5.1. How do I post to the list? Mail sent to CONKLIN-L@rootsweb.com is delivered to all the subscribers on the CONKLIN-L list. 5.2. Where can I read the old CONKLIN-L messages? Use a web browser to open the location: http://www.rootsweb.com/~nozell/CONKLIN/ And follow the links to the archives. The mailing list owner tries to update the archives towards the beginning of each month. If you don't see last month's archives, pester the list owner. 5.3. How do I send a query? Send mail to CONKLIN-L@rootsweb.com, make sure you have a reasonable subject line (e.g. ``Claudius CONKLIN, Orange Co'') and provide enough information that someone can be of help. Be sure to include your return email address and your real name. Some mailers don't properly display a return email address, so this is very important. Also including your real name is just a nice thing to do. No one likes chatting with someone known only as ``SAMJ46198@AOL.COM'' or ``71234.987@compuserve.com'' 5.4. When should I reply to the entire mailing list and when should I reply to just the individual? There are no hard and fast rules, but generally speaking, if you think your reply would be of help to someone else on the list, then post it to the entire list. Otherwise, just send it to the original person. If you pose a question and get quite a lot of feedback, you may want to send a message to the list with a summary of the information. 5.5. What can/should I send to the list? Anything that is related to genealogy *and* the CONKLIN surname is fair game. NOTE: Short one-time commercial messages advertising services or products are allowed if they are of particular interest to the group. But please, no email spamming. o Don't post large messages. o Don't post binary files (ie: MS Word files, zip files, etc) o Don't post flames (please use person-to-person mail for personal attacks :-) o Don't post copy-written material unless you own the copyright or the copyright allows for redistribution. 5.6. How do I get the more recent version of the FAQ? There are two ways go get the latest copy. 5.6.1. Via the Web Visit the URL: http://www.rootsweb.com/~nozell/conklin-l/FAQ This FAQ is also available in other formats. o Simple ASCII text -- http://www.rootsweb.com/~nozell/conklin- l/FAQ/CONKLIN-L.txt o Postscript -- http://www.rootsweb.com/~nozell/conklin- l/FAQ/CONKLIN-L.ps o RTF (suitable for importing into various word processors) -- http://www.rootsweb.com/~nozell/conklin-l/FAQ/CONKLIN-L.rtf and http://www.rootsweb.com/~nozell/conklin-l/FAQ/CONKLIN-L-0.rtf 5.6.2. Via email Send a mail message to CONKLIN-L-request@rootsweb.com that has a subject line of archive and in the body of the message are just the words ``get CONKLIN-L.FAQ''. Every mail client is different, but your message should look something like this: ______________________________________________________________________ To: CONKLIN-L-request@rootsweb.com Subject: archive get CONKLIN-L.FAQ ______________________________________________________________________ Remember that case is important. In a few minutes you will get a copy of the FAQ and confirmation of the request. 5.7. How do I search the email archives? All the email messages that have been posted to CONKLIN-L since its start (February 1997) are available for review by email. It is also possible to automatically request a copy of the latest and greatest version of the CONKLIN-L.FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) Every mail client is different, but your message should look something like this: ______________________________________________________________________ To: CONKLIN-L-request@rootsweb.com Subject: archive ls latest/* egrep ^Subject: latest/* egrep http latest/* get latest/750 ______________________________________________________________________ Okay, so what does that all mean? The ``ls'' command will return a directory listing of all the old messages in the latest/ subdirectory where is where all the old email message are kept. The file names are pretty uninteresting, they are simply numbers that correspond to the the order that they arrived. The first egrep line means ``search all the files in the latest directory for the lines that start with the string Subject:'' You can then request (``get latest/123'') those files that look interesting. The second egrep line searches all the old messages for the string ``http'' so it should list all the files that contain references to web sites. The get command means send you the file 750 in the subdirectory latest/. It happens to be a posting of mine about how to use the RSL. 6. Surfing the web 6.1. Where is the offical CONKLIN-L web page? The URL for the web page is: http://www.rootsweb.com/~nozell/conklin-l.html 7. Are there other mailing lists I can join? There are a number of mailing lists on the internet and a fair number of them are genealogy related. The best place to find other genealogy related lists is Vicki Lindsay's web page: http://www.eskimo.com/~chance/ The original genealogy mailing list, ROOTS-L, is also run on rootsweb.com. Take a look at the rootsweb web page for more information: http://www.rootsweb.com/