Because of this, it is critical to note the date on which you viewed the web page to obtain the information cited. Mills suggests including this date at the end of the citation. Electronic Mail E-mail has extended the reach of every genealogist who uses the Internet. As fellow online researchers whom we will never meet provide us with useful genealogical information, we are obliged to cite their messages as source material. This is particularly true of the interesting tidbits of family history such as stories and reminiscences shared by other family members.
Mailing lists are the electronic mail equivalent of radio broadcasting.
There are now thousands of free genealogy-related mailing lists available. In the example below, Mills includes the date on which the message cited was printed out. This printout date is not really necessary. Once a message is sent to a mailing list, the author of the message does not have the ability to change the message copies which were sent to other mailing list subscribers. Therefore the date required for the citation of a mailing list message is the date which it was sent to the mailing list by its author - its creation date.