The City of Alexandria Mail List (VaCAlexa) is hosted by rootsweb as a maillist for any and everyone interested in City of Alexandria genealogy and history. This mail list is available in mail (L) or digest (D) mode, the instructions for the mail (L) mode are given first. If you wish, you may skip straight to the digest (D) mode. If you wish to know more about which mode is right for you, a description of each is provided at the beginning of each set of instructions.   Mail (L) Mode The Mail (L) Mode of this, or any other list hosted by rootwseb, means that each message sent to the Mail List will be forwarded directly to each subscriber as it is received. On a heavy traffic list (which VaCAlexa is not*) this could mean over 100 individual e-mail messages a day. If you like to read the news as it happens, the Mail (L) Mode is for you. (*VaCAlexa presently generates less than 10 messages per month) To Subscribe to the Mail (L) Mode If you wish to subscribe to the City of Alexandria Mail List please send a message to the address: VaCAlexa-L-request@Rootsweb.com that contains the word: SUBSCRIBE and nothing else. It is generally recommended to leave the subject line of this message blank, but as some e-mail servers will not allow this, the subject line "subscribe" may be used also. To Unsubscribe from the Mail (L) Mode Much as I wish no-one would want to leave the City of Alexandria Mail List, I still feel obligated to give the instructions for doing so. To unsubscribe please send a message to the address: VaCAlexa-L-request@Rootsweb.com that contains the word: UNSUBSCRIBE and nothing else. It is generally recommended to leave the subject line of this message blank, but as some e-mail servers will not allow this, the subject line "unsubscribe" may be used also. Please note: this unsub message *MUST* be sent from the same address that you used to subscribe. If this is impossible for you to do (due to vanishing servers etc.) please drop me a line showing the address you wish to have unsubscribed. Digest (D) Mode The Digest (D) Mode of this, or any other list hosted by rootwseb, means that messages sent to the Mail List will be collected into packets (or digests) and forwarded to each subscriber after that digest reaches a certain size. On a heavy traffic list (which VaCAlexa is not*) this could mean 1 or more digest packets a day. If you like to limit the number of messages you receive, the Digest (D) Mode is for you. (*VaCAlexa presently generates less than 3 digest messages per month) To Subscribe to the Digest (D) Mode If you wish to subscribe to the City of Alexandria Mail List please send a message to the address: VaCAlexa-D-request@Rootsweb.com that contains the word: SUBSCRIBE and nothing else. It is generally recommended to leave the subject line of this message blank, but as some e-mail servers will not allow this, the subject line "subscribe" may be used also. To Unsubscribe from the Digest (D) Mode Much as I wish no-one would want to leave the City of Alexandria Mail List, I still feel obligated to give the instructions for doing so. To unsubscribe please send a message to the address: VaCAlexa-D-request@Rootsweb.com that contains the word: UNSUBSCRIBE and nothing else. It is generally recommended to leave the subject line of this message blank, but as some e-mail servers will not allow this, the subject line "unsubscribe" may be used also. Please note: this unsub message *MUST* be sent from the same address that you used to subscribe. If this is impossible for you to do (due to vanishing servers etc.) please drop me a line showing the address you wish to have unsubscribed. Sending Messages to the Mail List All messages for the mail list should be sent to: VaCAlexa-L@rootsweb.com The message you send to this address will be received by all subscribers to VaCAlexa in both the mail (L) and digest (D) modes. Searchable Archives for this Mail List http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=VaCAlexa Threaded Archives for this Mail List http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/VaCAlexa

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