How to Subscribe to & Unsubscribe from
The Bolch-L List at RootsWeb
 the List for all interested in the surname
Bolch, Balch, Balich, Boalich, Bohlich, Bohlig, Bolch, Boleck, Boley, Bolich, Bolick, Boliek, Bolig, Boligh, Bolih, Bolish, Bollich, Bollick, Bollig, Bolligh, Bolock, Bolsch
of any spelling
Melanie Coyl, listowner
It costs nothing to subscribe or to be a subscriber. It is for posting genealogical queries about Bolchs of any spelling. There are 2 types of subscriptions. If you want to receive the posts individually as they are sent to the list, then subscribe to "mail mode". It you want the posts gathered up by the server & mailed to you as a group when the server has collected a preset amount of bytes of email or a preset amount of time has passed since the last digest was sent (which ever happens first), then subscribe to "digest mode". The only difference in how to subscribe one way vs. the other is which server you write to & get your address added to -- the D or the L server. If you look carefully below you will see that to subscribe in mail mode the subscribe message is sent to Bolch-L-Request & to subscribe in digest mode the subscribe message is sent to Bolch-D-Request. Thus notice that we have 2 servers & 2 lists, but the D list is subscribed to the L list & vice versa so anything sent to either list is received by all addresses subscribed to the L & the D lists.

If this web page does not make sense, slow down and read it again slower, out loud, & more carefully & read what is below & think about how it might work, as you read. Try it out & eventually this will become clear. You can even subscribe to both modes at once, though you won't want to do that for long, because it is boring to get 2 copies of every post.

How to subscribe to "mail mode"
  1. Start (Open) your email program (email facility) whose address you want to subscribe to the list.
  2. Write Bolch-L-Request@RootsWeb.Com
  3. on the 1st line of the letter type:
    subscribe
  4. Make sure there is no signature lines or anything else in the body of the letter.
  5. Then mail it. It will get your address from the header of your letter. It does not read the subject line of your letter, so put anything or nothing in the subject.
  6. It will send you a welcome message with instructions on how to use the list.
How to subscribe to "digest mode"
  1. Start (Open) your email program (email facility) whose address you want to subscribe to the list.
  2. Write Bolch-D-Request@RootsWeb.Com
  3. on the 1st line of the letter type:
    subscribe
  4. Make sure there is no signature lines or anything else in the body of the letter.
  5. Then mail it. It will get your address from the header of your letter. It does not read the subject line of your letter, so put anything or nothing in the subject.
  6. It will send you a welcome message with instructions on how to use the list.
How to Unsubscribe from "mail mode"
  1. Start (Open) your email program (email facility) whose address you want to subscribe to the list.
  2. Write Bolch-L-Request@RootsWeb.Com
  3. on the 1st line of the letter type:
    unsubscribe
  4. Make sure there is no signature lines or anything else in the body of the letter.
  5. Then mail it. It will get your address from the header of your letter. It does not read the subject line of your letter, so put anything or nothing in the subject.
  6. It will send you a message telling you that it has unsubscribed you from the list.
How to Unsubscribe from "digest mode"
  1. Start (Open) your email program (email facility) whose address you want to subscribe to the list.
  2. Write Bolch-D-Request@RootsWeb.Com
  3. on the 1st line of the letter type:
    unsubscribe
  4. Make sure there is no signature lines or anything else in the body of the letter.
  5. Then mail it. It will get your address from the header of your letter. It does not read the subject line of your letter, so put anything or nothing in the subject.
  6. It will send you a message telling you that it has unsubscribed you from the list.
How to get the list of who is currently subscribed

People used to be able to write to the listserver & get the list of subscribers, but that no longer works. RootsWeb's server got messed up sometime between April & Dec. 1998 (I think), and the dist file stopped being updated. Shortly after the RootsWeb staff closed the lists in mid Dec. 1998, it was realized that the old dist files were controling who could post, so the dist files were removed for all lists at RootsWeb. Now, only the listowner can get the list of addresses that are subscribed. So, if you want to know who is subscribed, email the listowner, Melanie Coyl, at kCoyl@ees.eesc.Com.

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my Bolick site

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http://freepages.genealogy.RootsWeb.Com/~jwg3/Bolick/bolhow.html
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This page was put on the web 9 October 2000.
This page was Last Updated __.

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James W. Green III.

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