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Contents of this welcome message:


Purpose
The INVIGO-L list is for discussion of the genealogy of Vigo County, Indiana families. Discussion of the history of the county is also welcome.

How to unsubscribe
Send a message to

INVIGO-L-request@rootsweb.com

that contains (in the body of the message) the command

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and no additional text (if you have difficulty removing your signature lines, you can put the word "quit" on the line after "unsubscribe").

If your e-mail address goes bad or your mailbox fills up, you'll be automatically unsubscribed by the mailing list software after the fourth message in a row bounces back to RootsWeb.

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How to subscribe
If your subscription is cancelled for whatever reason and you want to resubscribe, just send the command "subscribe" to
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Digest Mode
How to change to digest mode (several postings are combined and sent to you together as a single large message). There are two steps.

First, send the command "subscribe" (minus the quotation marks) to INVIGO-D-request@rootsweb.com to start receiving digests.

Second, send the command "unsubscribe" (minus the quotation marks) to INVIGO-L-request@rootsweb.com to discontinue mail mode.

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NOMAIL mode
There is no formal NOMAIL mode. All you have to do is follow the directions above and unsubscribe when you want the messages to stop, and then when you want them to start again, simply subscribe again.

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Post a message

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The list owner of the INVIGO-L list is

Pam Yates. I'm also the County Coordinator for the Vigo Co USGenWeb page. I was born and raised in Vigo Co. Some of my ancestors settled in Fayette Township in the 1830's.

If you have problems getting unsubscribed from the list or have any other difficulties with the list, write to me at shank1023@yahoo.com (not to the list) and I'll try to resolve the problem.

Please try to remember that, like all the COUNTY-L lists at RootsWeb, the subscribe and unsubscribe messages go to

INVIGO-L-request@rootweb.com, not to the INVIGO-L@rootsweb.com list itself.

If such messages do appear on the list, I'll manually subscribe or unsubscribe the person, though.

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Rootsweb
The mailing list is presently installed at rootsweb.com, which is the home of the
RootsWeb Genealogical Data Cooperative. It's not necessary to pay anything to subscribe to any of its surname mailing lists, but if you like what rootsweb does, please consider becoming a member ($12.00 per year) or sponsor ($24.00 per year).

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Message format and attachments

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Advertising
Technically, RootsWeb has a "no commercial use" policy. Like all RootsWeb policies, though, the last thing that we want is for policy to get in the way of our doing genealogy. Therefore, the INVIGO list will accept brief announcements of books and other resource material for sale that is specifically related to this county. Don't include prices and ordering info; just include a pointer to a URL, a commercial mailing list, or an e-mail address where the complete ordering information can be found. In case of doubt, send the message to the list custodian,
Pam Yates, and I'll review it and forward it to the list if appropriate.

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Copyrights
Any person sending a message to this list retains the copyright to it. By sending the message, you grant to the list custodian, and to his heirs and assigns forever, permission to distribute copies of the message to other list members, to store archival copies of the message, and to make the archival copies available to the Internet community at large. You also grant to other list members the right to quote your message in part or in total as a part of their replies sent back to the list.

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Archives
At present, the archival copies are stored at Rootsweb.com and can be retrieved by anyone. To get a list of the messages that have been archived, send a message to

INVIGO-L-request@rootweb.com

with the subject

archive SEARCH Subject: latest/*

and nothing in the body of the message.

You'll get back a message that looks like this:

ARCHIVE search subject: latest/*
BEGIN---------------cut here------------------
latest/23:10:Subject: Re: John DOE query (fwd)
latest/24:12:Subject: Looking for Samuel FORWOOD
latest/25:15:Subject: inquiry
latest/26:15:Subject: Hitchcock Md.>Ar.>Ok.>Ar. & other western states
latest/27:17:Subject: Jon Harlan
END-----------------cut here------------------

If you decide you want to read the message about John Harlan, the "latest/27:" part of the line identifies the file containing the message.

Send another message to INVIGO-L-request@rootweb.com with the subject

archive SEND latest/27

and nothing in the body. You can request several messages at once, but please don't request more than ten at a time.

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No-nos


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