An effort to centralize SHINER research
Hello SHINER Researchers,
(Sorry, SKINNER Researchers, but please read this post, you may find this site helpful for your surname as well)
I think found a home for communicating with our fellow SHINER researchers. I've been a member of this website for a couple of years now, in one of the music related eGroups. They have just updated the site, and I think it will be a great-centralized place for us to communicate with each other online.
The ONElist site has thousands of eGroups that cover every topic imaginable. You have to sign up to be a member of the website, then subscribe to the eGroups that you find of interest.
I have set up one just for SHINER Family Researchers that will be a private eGroup. No one can subscribe unless I let them in; this was done to keep out the riff-raff. I will have it open to the public for a few days, so that you folks that want to subscribe can do so with less hassle.
The main part each eGroup is a message board that archives all the messages posted to it. You can subscribe in one of three different ways; separate emails, a daily email in digest form, or you can go to the site to read messages that have been posted. You can also choose to either post from your email program, or directly on the site. I prefer to do everything from the site myself, this is because I prefer to keep my email box as uncluttered as I can, yeah right ;-)
There is a FILE section where we have 20 MEG of ONElist’s memory to upload pictures, files, etc.
There is also a CHATROOM, a place to put website LINKS, and more. Subscribed members to OUR eGroup are the only people that have access to them.
The best thing is that it's all for FREE, ya just have to put up with advertiser's banners all over the place.
To subscribe, please do the following:
1. Go to http://www.onelist.comhttp://www.onelist.com
2. Look to the left side of the screen and click on "Sign-up today for free!" (yeah right, it’s always free)
3. Take the time to read about the Registration Benefits on the left side of the next page.
4. Then Register to the site.
5. Once you’re signed in, do a search on the word Shiner.
6. Now you can subscribe to the eGroup I made for us.
7. Normally you would have to wait for me to accept your subscription, but like I said above, for right now I’ll have it open.
8. Now you can look around and see how I've set it up.
Please check out the message area and read my first two messages. Then go to the FILE area and look around. Read the PLEASE READ THIS FIRST file there and take a look at some of my sample files.
There are other places to poke around too, but none of them have things I've put in.
After you get a feel for the place, please send me some feedback. If you like it and think it will serve our purpose, then we can get it going and invite others. I'd prefer to keep this eGroup strictly to the SHINERs and their spouses (and maybe their spouses immediate families), and if anyone sees the need to start an eGroup for another surname, let the snowball grow.
If you run into any problems please email me. I know my way around the site pretty well.
Check it out and let me know what you think, and please forward this email to any SHINER Researchers that you know.
See ya there,
Keith F. Shiner
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Re: An effort to centralize SHINER research
Patricia Phipps 4/09/00