MAILING LISTS
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Mailing ListsBritish-Genealogy.com is dedicated to assisting people with their British family history research. The British-Genealogy.com mailing lists have now been replaced by a much more efficient format See here for the British-genealogy.com forums
We introduced the forums as an alternative to mailing lists, as these days so many people are having problems with spam traps and black lists somewhere between us and them, blocking their list mail. With the new system everyone can participate. It is all totally FREE to use. |
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| A mailing list is a place where you can post messages, and where you
receive a copy of each message posted by others. The mail from mailing lists
is totally interactive, and almost instant, making them just like a discussion
group.
Some mailing lists have quite a lot of mail, some little, but always interesting. Each mailing list is maintained by a "list administrator" (sometimes known as a list owner). His or her task is to keep the mailing list in order, on topic, and to give help and advice where necessary. Think of a genealogy mailing list as being a discussion by people with a common interest in the list administrator's own home. To be able to post a message to a mailing list, and to receive mail, you need to be a "subscriber". It costs nothing to subscribe. Once you subscribe to one of the British-Genealogy mailing lists, you are provided with your own page where you can set up your own preferences for how you receive the messages, subscribe to different mailing lists, turn off the mail when you go on holiday, or remove yourself from a mailing list. You are in total control, even if you change your email address. You may receive list mail in either:
List mode - individual email messages See the user guide for list subscribers
The "core county" mailing lists are listed in the column to the left.More mailing lists may be added as required, (covering different topics), and some already have been. They will not all be listed here in the "core county" lists. See the full list of mailing lists. You will be provided with your own management page once you subscribe to your first mailing list. Mailing lists have been established for each county in England, Wales, Scotland and the British Islands in an easy-to-remember logical organised manner. These are the old historical counties, which is the way that official records were made and are classified. We shall not be having mailing lists for the post 1974 administrative areas, nor shall we be having cross-county mailing lists or regional lists. However, we will be adding some mailing lists which will be for sub divisions of some counties or for major cities as required, for example:
Again in a logical organised manner, using the Chapman code to represent the relevant county. Finally, we have some general topic mailing lists:
The facility exists here to also have mailing lists for family history societies, local history societies, etc. They will be provided free by British-Genealogy.com on request. See: applying for a mailing list
Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) for Mailing listsIt is important that you read this The British-Genealogy mailing lists are provided free, for enjoyment, education and discussion. Each mailing list has a specific "topic". It is the mailing list administrator's responsibility to uphold this Acceptable Use Policy (AUP). In addition, the mailing list administrator may define his/her own guidelines as applicable, as long as they do not conflict with this AUP. You must be aware, as a subscriber to a mailing list, that you are to accept this AUP and to abide by it, and to accept the list administrator's enforcement of it. You may not post messages on the mailing lists that attempt to do the list administrator's job, or to impose these or other rules. Courtesy Think of a mailing list as being a discussion between people having common interests at a meeting in the list administrator's own home. You are a guest. It is accepted that sometimes there may be heated discussions where people may disagree, but please behave responsibly, and not resort to malicious statements of a personal nature. The List Administrator will not tolerate maliciousness or personal attacks on others. Under such circumstances, you may expect to be shown the door. Do not join in with such discussions or matters relating to them on the mailing list. If you feel that you really must comment, then do it by private email off list. Leave it to the List Administrator to handle. If you receive private emails that are malicious, or that are personal attacks, contact your ISP and the ISP of the person who sent you the message. Keep on topic for the mailing list Each mailing list has a defined topic. Overall, the discussions should be about genealogy, sociology, history, topography and resources relating to these. These are topics that relate to the research into our ancestors. If the discussion alters its course into a topic that is covered by a different mailing list, then move the discussion to the other mailing list. Discussion of politics, war and religion are to be considered to be "off topic" and therefore not allowed, except where in direct relevance to your ancestors. General chat in a mailing list is considered to be off-topic, so please conduct that in private emails, or in the GEN-chat mailing list provided for that purpose. Remember that the messages posted to the British-Genealogy mailing lists are stored in archives for the benefit of people researching their family history, so that they can access them at a later date. It is not acceptable to use the mailing lists as a "soap box" to air your views. Messages about viruses Virus announcements and discussion of viruses is strictly prohibited by mailing list members. Cross-Posting Posting of the same message to more than two mailing lists is not allowed. It is accepted that in your quest for information about a particular ancestor, that it may be necessary for you to post the same message to, say, the mailing list of an adjacent county. The forwarding of a message from one mailing list to another is considered to be bad etiquette. There may be times when it is acceptable, but generally, it is not. Advertising and promotion of products and services It is not permitted to advertise products and services on the mailing lists except by permission of the List Administrator, who, if necessary, will contact the British-Genealogy Mailing List Co-ordinator for clarification. For the avoidance of doubt, this refers to all products and services (paid for or not paid for), with the exception of those provided by bona fide local history societies and family history societies, advertising of which is explicitly allowed. It is permitted in your messages to refer to products and services that will be of interest to other family historians, and in the normal course of in-context discussion, with the following exceptions:
Posting of messages in criticism of products and services is not permitted. For the avoidance of doubt, this applies even in the case where you may think that the public needs to be protected from a company or organisation that you perceive to be trading illegally or irresponsibly. This rule is for your own protection. There have been cases where individuals have been taken to court for making such statements. Subject to confirmation, a List Administrator only may post such messages. If you want to make a complaint about a product, do it direct to the publisher. That is the correct and responsible thing to do. British-Genealogy has a separate mailing list specifically for advertising products and services that will be of interest to family historians.
This mailing list is strictly controlled, and only authorised companies and organisations allowed to post to this mailing list. It is strongly recommended that you do subscribe to the GEN-products mailing list to keep yourself up to date with new products and services that will assist you with your research! In addition, publishers of genealogy products may apply for their own user-supported mailing lists on the British-Genealogy.com servers. For details see here. Posting Messages Please always post messages in plain text, and not in HTML mode. Messages in HTML will cause all sorts of problems for those who read the messages in digest form. Also, some HTML messages simply won't get into the system and will not appear on the mailing list.
Advertising to do lookups It is not permitted to advertise on a mailing list offering to do lookups. (Either paid for or free). This rule will be strictly enforced by the List Administrator. For the avoidance of doubt, such messages include those such as "I have this new book (or fiche or CD) and I am happy to do lookups for anyone". Such messages undermine the viability of products produced by family history societies and other organisations. However, it is allowed and encouraged (subject to the copyright of the author and licence of the product publisher) to help others on the mailing lists with their specific family history problems and queries by using or quoting a limited amount of material from published sources; and in such cases, you should always refer to the source, its author, the publisher and the product. Copyright When posting to the mailing lists, what you write remains your copyright. However, there are certain considerations that you should bear in mind. You are responsible for what you write, and you should not infringe the copyright of others. For the avoidance of doubt, you are allowed to quote short sections from the works of others. It is the nature of mailing lists that people may quote all or part of your message in any reply that they may post to the mailing list, or in private email messages to others. All messages posted to the British-Genealogy mailing lists are archived and are accessible to other registered users (subscribers) of the system. British-Genealogy does not claim copyright of what you write, but you agree to messages being archived for the future use of other researchers. Messages cannot be removed from the archives of the mailing lists, except in the case of directives from a legal court. Posting of Illegal Copies of Material British-Genealogy.com has a zero tolerance policy regarding the posting of illegal copies of material that is either in copyright or which contravenes the license of use. This applies to copies of material posted to the mailing lists or forums, or seen to be being posted in private emails to other users of the system. In particular, please note that when you have a copy of a census page, either from a CD or downloaded from a web site, it is ILLEGAL to make a copy and forward it to someone else. Please read the licence and copyright notice on the source from where you obtained the census image. It will include the words "must not be copied" and "for personal research only". For the avoidance of doubt, this applies to copies of census page images (which are not allowed), and does not apply to census transcriptions (which are allowed). . Failure to comply with the rules and responsibilities in this Acceptable Use Policy may result in a list member being suspended or removed from a mailing list, at the discretion of the List Administrator. *EVERYONE* WHO USES INTERNET EMAIL SHOULD HAVE A CURRENT VIRUS CHECKER INSTALLED - *AND* KEEP IT UPDATED *DAILY* |
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