Hi Shirl,
"If one is going to be away for a few days or even for a week or
two; can we set ourselves to special notice so that we can at least read
all the messages online somewhere?"
With this particular list, you are either subscribed and receive the
mail, or not subscribed and don't receive it. Other list software has
other stages in-between, but this one doesn't.
If you are going away, and your mail box may overflow while you're gone,
you should unsubscribe from the list before you go, and join up again
once you're back online. Some have space restrictions - find out before
you go away if yours does and if you would exceed it in the time you're
offline.
There is an archive of all the list messages, which you can consult any
time - see the link at the bottom of every list post.
"Also wondering what most of you do in regards to all the messages I
receive and not just from Leagcy but all concerning genealogy
searching.... do you have it all come inot your inbox on your computer
or do you have an internet email addy?"
I have all list mail, for all the lists I subscribe to, sent to this one
address. Other people I know like to use a different address for their
list mail to keep it separate from their personal mail. It is your
choice, but given that you are a newby at these things I would strongly
recommend that you use just the one until you are more comfortable with
email.
I use a filter (or rule, depending on your mail program) to identify the
mail from the Legacy Users' Group and divert it to a folder of its own.
I do the same for every list I subscribe to. This means that the folder
called Inbox contains only mail that is addressed to me personally, and
all the list mail is kept away, ready for me to look at when I want to,
but out of the way when I don't. Check your email program's Help files
to find out how to use it in your particular mail box.
I have some instructions on my personal web site to help people set a
filter/rule for a different list, but they can be adapted to any mailing
list - see http://www.geocities.com/wendy_m_howard/How-to.htm#RuleFilter
Most list mail I receive is deleted once I've read it. On the rare
occasion there is something I want to keep, I move it to a different
folder for safe-keeping.
"Also where is the best place to keep all the url's and webpages that
I frequent all the time?"
Your web browser (that's the program you use to look at web pages) has a
feature called Favorites or Bookmarks. You can save your URLs there for
easy access. They can also be sorted into folders to keep like things
together. I have hundreds of URLs saved this way, and can locate the
one I want quickly because I have them sorted into folders of like things.
" I have everyhting organized and in many differnet folders in my inbox
but fear its most likely loading down Outlook Express and I don't want
to loose everything."
Make sure you back up your computer regularly, and keep the backup
somewhere other than the same house/building as the computer (in case of
fire, etc, where the structure is destroyed). I back up the folder
called "My Documents" on my computer, and make sure that anything I want
to keep (mail, pictures, documents, Legacy databases, downloaded program
files, etc) is stored in a folder somewhere within this one folder.
Also find out where your mail is stored, and back that up too if it is
somewhere else. Check your Help files for this.
You will only bog down your Outlook Express if you start to run out of
hard drive space - been there, done that, don't recommend it! :-)
Hope this helps.
Kind Regards,
Wendy Howard
--
Kaiwaka, Northland, New Zealand
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