Richard Heli schrieb:
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Hello Holger,
Is it really so bad? I maintain the Alsace pages and get perhaps 5-6 emails a year about it. Can it really be true that Hessen would get 1000 requests in a year? What is the experience of the owners of the other regional pages? esp. for the various German states? Dieter has Rheinland-Pfalz -- how much email are you getting from it?
From the Maus pages I get right now approx. 4 questions per week. I believe this would grow a lot, when we will bring our membership list, with all names and places our members are searching in the very near future online.
We have just yesterday decided, to do this first with our current online available members, to get a feeling, how much the traffic of request will grow. There have also been arguments like in Hessen, can we handle a much bigger number of requests?
I can't imagine anything more important to the project that getting English-language pages out there. If there is an English-language page, even if you don't answer the emails, the English-only amateur genealogists at least get something. Without an English page, they get nothing.
Absolutely agreed. Our aim should be to have nearly all pages in both languages. If one would not like to answer questions by E-Mail, dont put an E-Mail adress on the page and state cleary, that requests could only be handled via snail-mail and (shure) with international reply coupons. -- Mit freundlichem Gruss/ kind regards Klaus-Peter Wessel _____________________________________________________________________ E-Mail: mailto:klaus-peter@wessel.com WWW: http://klaus-peter.wessel.com