[or-roots] Hogging the list

[Cecil Houk]

Les:

Thanks for the kind words, but... DUCK!

I try not to re-post much of anything, but I did make frequent
updates to the OT list of my families.  I haven't done that of late
because I do not have access to FTM or Cute FTP on this computer
(not yet), so there have been no changes to my GEDCOM or MY
OREGON TRAIL FAMILIES web pages.  I can post snippets
from the writings of my ancestors, and have done so.

As I've said, I am related to a great number of people who were in
Oregon in the last half of the 19th century (1843-?).  Not to toot my
own horn, but my gr gr grandfather, Nineveh Ford, drove the first
wagon into Oregon City as part of the Great Emigration of 1843.
(Actually he rafted the wagon up the Willamette River.)  His daughter,
my gr grandmother Martha Jane Ford Rulaford, was the first white
girl baby born in the Walla Walla Valley.  (Near Milton or Freewater,
but not Milton-Freewater.)

Now.  Do I have a stake in Oregon history?  You betcha Red Rider!

The list hog




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Leslie Chapman" <khanjehgil at presys.com>
To: <or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us>
Sent: Friday, February 14, 2003 8:22 PM
Subject: [or-roots] Hogging the list


> I have to agree with the sentiment the more the merrier. As I told Cecil
> privately I can sort of sympathize with folks since I archive a lions share
> of the list stuff and since he reposts and I try to sort stuff by sender or
> subject his posting a dozen letters a day makes a little extra work for me,
> but what I want to point out is that a lot of folks don't know how (me for
> instance) to access the archives, or are too lazy ( me again) and some
> search engines don't do archives well.
> And folks that are new to the list might see something they would have never
> known was available. I am on the Wheeler list and have probably posted some
> of the same info 4 or five times in two years because folks keep asking for
> it.
> I am on top of things enough to have some clue what has and hasn't been
> posted and often will send things privately, if I can remember to do it that
> way and not post it to the list by mistake. Often I end up haveing to turn
> around and post to the list cause the subject comes up and a bunch of other
> folks want to know what I posted.
> Are we confused yet?
> People who are offended by all those need to learn how to block incoming
> email. Most email programs have a facility for blocking junk email and if
> folks are so put off by Cecil being informative they could just go block him
> out. He won't mind cause he won't know it and those of us who enjoy his
> stuff won't have to waste so much list space defending him. Hopefully the
> archivists at Or-list can go through and dump all this useless dialogue, but
> of course 50 years from now this whole discussion will be valuable history.
> I am dealing with nearly a thousand pages of letters from 1908 to 1947 sent
> mostly to my maternal gram, and believe me if most of those folks had known
> their words would end up being history they probably wouldn't have put pen
> to paper.
> 
> Les C.
> 
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