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Email Discussion
Group
JewishGen, Inc.
hosts a number of online discussion groups, including one for
the German Jewish SIG. There is no charge to participate in
this mailing list. To subscribe, go to the JewishGen WebForm
and follow the simple instructions. You can easily subscribe/unsubscribe,
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mode is “Digest” in which you will receive one daily
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the GerSig messages posted since the previous digest. If you
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by the Moderator you can set your subscription to the “Mail”
mode. All the changes to your subscription can be made
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Please note:
Only GerSig member/subscribers can post messages to the GerSig
Discussion Group.
To post a message that will be distributed to all subscribers
on the list, send e-mail to: gersig@lyris.jewishgen.org
Send email regarding problems you experience with the listserver
or other technical problems regarding the functionality of the
listserver DIRECTLY to the moderators of the list. You will
receive a rapid response from: GerSig@aol.com.
If you have misplaced
the introductory letter from the Moderator, you can read it
here.
Discussion Group
House Rules and Netiquette
Please read and follow these rules for messages
that you send.
If the rules are ignored your message will not be accepted.
- YOU MUST SIGN YOUR POST: All messages must be signed as
follows:
Name + USA city of residence + state of residence or
Name & non USA city of residence + nation of residence.
First Name Last Name City State or Nation E-mail ! NOTHIING
MORE !
Please do NOT include full mailing address, telephone or fax
numbers or company name in your signature. This is to prevent
our list from being attractive to and used by companies or
individuals who wish to collect such information for commercial
purposes.
- FAMILY NAMES - Family names (surnames) of people you are
researching in both subject line and body text should be written
in ALL UPPER CASE characters. Example: (Albert EINSTEIN)
Use of all upper case for other text should be avoided except
(as here) for subject headings and R A R E special emphasis.
- AVOID UMLAUTS and other ACCENTS - For technical reasons,
you should not write ä, ö, and ü with umlaut
or use the ß (esszet) character in your email to the
GerSig Forum. Use of accent marks will often produce garbled
text.
Please write ae, oe, ue, and ss instead. To be very clear,
it is
best to write it this way: "Loewenstein / Lowenstein
(o umlaut)".
- A MEANINGFUL SUBJECT LINE IS REQUIRED - Your subject line
should give readers an idea of the content of your message.
If you are responding to a previous posting, your subject
line should begin with RE: (subject line of previous post)
+ qualifier if needed.
- NO COMMERCIAL, POLITICAL OR FUNDRAISING MESSAGES will be
accepted.
- PLAIN TEXT ONLY, MIME, HTML and MIXED MULITPART messages
will be rejected for technical reasons. For help with PLAIN
TEXT go to:
http://www.jewishgen.org/InfoFiles/PlainText.html
- TOWN NAMES: Except for large, well-known cities, your ancestral
towns mentioned in postings to GerSig should be identified
as fully as possible. Examples: Wallau (near Wiesbaden, Hessen);
Hochspeier (near Kaiserslautern, Rheinpfalz, Bavaria). Some
researchers use the modern German postal code to fully identify
towns. You may also use the map coordinates which you can
obtain from the JewishGen ShtetlSeeker. (http://www.jewishgen.org/ShtetlSeeker/).
Spell place names as they are today; you may add other versions
or spellings in parentheses. This will make it easier to spot
a relevant posting.
- Write email the way you do a business letter: get to the
point first, then put in the details. Always sign messages
with your full name and location, i.e., Jacob Levi <mishpacha@aol.com>
Baltimore, MD, Don't assume people know where you are. GerSIG
is read in dozens of countries worldwide.
Thanks for your cooperation.
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