Hi Brian, > why the use of a mailing list instead of a "Legacy Message > Board"? Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to dump on the > user group service here. It just seems to me a message > board would be more efficient and somewhat more practical > rather than keeping up with the many emails that a user > group generates.
Whether a mailing list, or a message board, is "more efficient" or "better" or whatever is very much a personal choice. You appear to like message boards, I prefer mailing lists. One is not right and the other wrong, just different. Legacy have chosen to host a mailing list. That's their choice. If you prefer message boards you may like to try the one at Rootsweb/Ancestry (http://boards.ancestry.com/topics.software.legacy/mb.ashx or http://boards.rootsweb.com/topics.software.legacy/mb.ashx) or you may like the forum at GenealogyWise (http://www.genealogywise.com/group/legacyfamilytreefans). There are probably others around that I'm not aware of, too. With the emails from a mailing list you have a variety of tools at your fingertips to control and direct the incoming mail so it isn't all just dumped into your Inbox along with everything else. Use a filter/rule to direct the list mail to its own folder. Sort by threads if you like that style. Use the delete button to remove posts with subject lines that don't interest you before you even open them. And so on. Don't be ruled by your mail box, impose your own order over it so it does what you want it to do. Hope this helps. :-) Kind Regards, Wendy Howard -- Kaiwaka, Northland, New Zealand http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wendyh65/ <http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/%7Ewendyh65/> Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
