Good point! Haven't heard any questions/answers at all on the LUG, which again makes me wonder if it's very active.
I have a question, I actually have loads of questions, but in the interest of simply changing the subject here goes: How do you handle alternate names? I enter all my alternate names & spellings in the appropriate place and I know you can make one of those names the "preferred"; is there a way for those to be more obvious? Most of the time the different spellings are on different, equally important documents and I want to be prompted to research using all of them. I suppose I could change the items that show up on family view to include the AKAs, but does anyone have a better system? This is especially a concern with the NFS because I believe Legacy uses the primary name as the one to search NFS for matches. So then how would I search NFS for alternate names? Thanks anyone/everyone who might give me a little insight :-) Kathy On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 12:45 PM, Kathy Meyer <kmeyer2...@gmail.com> wrote: > "We've heard many times that this is an > unfriendly LUG, intimidating people and generally causing bad > feelings. I think we'd do better to give a little leeway to our fellow > Legacy users, many of whom are obviously new to Legacy or the LUG (and > may not even know about the archives.) Sending a test message when > you are not sure if you are getting through to the group seems like a > pretty innocuous thing to do." > > I am on multiple email groups and this is by far the most unfriendly > group as stated. People here are willing to spend 10 minutes ranting > but unwilling to hit delete when they see a message they are not > interested in. They chase away people who would like to post a query > but are intimidated. And the squeaky wheel gets the grease because the > Millenia people are forced to "uphold" the rules when it could be such > a pleasant back & forth. Oh well. I still think in the end, we will > all receive some kind of insight from each other that will help us in > our research and use of LegacyFT. > > Kathy > > On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Dick Nixon <nixon.d...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Mike, that is a pretty narrow argument. Sure, some people have dial-up >> or no Internet at all, and some are running Win3.1, have small discs, >> and on and on. We all live with some economic trade offs. But it's >> 2010 and the norm for computer users is a fairly fast computer and >> some sort of high speed IN. You can't expect to design for the lowest >> common denominator. Some of the best features of Legacy pretty much >> require a fast IN and we'd all be outraged if Legacy had not kept up >> with the technology. (How about a snail mail LUG for those without any >> Internet?) We even allow discussion of clever Access functions and >> very few Legacy users are up for that. >> >> But I think the real point isn't the cost of an extra email, it's the >> need that some people feel to "enforce" the rules, as they perceive >> them, on everyone else. We've heard many times that this is an >> unfriendly LUG, intimidating people and generally causing bad >> feelings. I think we'd do better to give a little leeway to our fellow >> Legacy users, many of whom are obviously new to Legacy or the LUG (and >> may not even know about the archives.) Sending a test message when >> you are not sure if you are getting through to the group seems like a >> pretty innocuous thing to do. >> >> I think Millenia itself should do a better job of keeping people on >> topic and enforcing the rules...if they feel the need... and >> discourage the users from doing that. The LUG could then be a >> friendlier place and more useful to ALL users. >> >> (Guess I was bored today...my longest rant ever.) >> >> Dick >> >> >> >> Legacy User Group guidelines: >> >> http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp >> >> Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: >> >> http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ >> >> Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: >> >> http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergr...@legacyfamilytree.com/ >> >> Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp >> >> To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp >> >> >> >> > > > > -- > Kathy Meyer > "To reach a goal you have never before attained, you must do things > you have never before done." > --Richard G. Scott, "Finding the Way Back," Ensign, May 1990, 74 > > Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting > different results. ~ Albert Einstein > -- Kathy Meyer "To reach a goal you have never before attained, you must do things you have never before done." --Richard G. Scott, "Finding the Way Back," Ensign, May 1990, 74 Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. ~ Albert Einstein Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergr...@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
