Hello again everyone, I just wanted to pass this information to you. John Rigdon, used to be connected with GenWeb, I believe he is no longer. I did discover that he was subscribed to our BIRD list, but I have unsubscribed him, as many other list owners are doing. It seems that he is selling the messages that are posted to the lists. I do not want him to profit by what my subscribers are posting, when we are all here to help one another, for free. (Sometimes costs of copying and postage). The list is to help one another when we can, possibly find new "cousins" and to further genealogy. We had enough with GenForum, we don't need another one. I have not check his web site yet, but I will this morning. Hope this information is of some help.. Sharon Straight [email protected] List Owner DRUMM. ALLEN-NEW-ENGLAND/NY/NJ/PA, BUCKLEY, STRAIGHT, BIRD "Remember The Maiser - Shoot A Spammer" (Created by Kathryn Graham - "Kathie") http://members.aol.com/sjworkman/index.html http://members.aol.com/sjstraight/index.html http://members.aol.com/ssharmans/index.html << His search engine for the above website for the so-called FREE USGenWeb Project Archives information appears to be a rouse indicating my Microsoft Internet Browser is NOT suitable for using his search engine. Below is one of his innocuous posts peddling his wares to unsuspecting researchers under the disguise of the USGenWeb Project Archives: ------------------- Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 22:11:29 EDT From: John C Rigdon <[email protected]> Subject: GA and SC Archives Files Now Indexed I have now completed the indexing of the files in the USGenWeb Project Archives for GA and SC. You can now search these files by choosing the NEW FILES INDEXED THIS MONTH option to search. Selecting this option only, and leaving the GIWWW index unselected will search these new files only. The GA and SC archives represent over 18,000 names in almost 50 files. The Genealogists Index to the World Wide Web is located at http://members.aol.com/genwebindx John Rigdon ----------------- At 08:20 AM 21/08/1997 -0400, Dana W Schulter <[email protected]> wrote: >Since we were talking of John Rigdon last week I thought I would pass along this information that showed up on VA ROOTS this morning.... > >> Subject: A scam that came through va-roots >> >> Just want y'all to be aware of a scam that came to all of us. I was probably >> the only fish that "bit"! There is a J Rigdon who came on and said he had >> some genealogy papers lying around and gave the surnames involved. One of >> them was Perry. I told him I wanted the Perry things. >> >> Well, what I received for the $3.00 I agreed to send was COPIES of a bunch >> of on-line queries, etc. Nothing was documented and there were very few of >> those bulletin board notes that had any information at all. Mostly queries >> and many of those involving Perrys in the twentieth century! >> >> The value of what I received sits in my printer, face down, to be used for misc. >>printing jobs. >> >> J Rigdon, from what it appears, is not an individual on this list as represented. >> >>Rather, he is a salesman for Eastern Digital Resources in N. Augusta, S.C. and >>apparently he's here to push his worthless wares. >> >> Please be warned. I don't want anyone else to fall into the same trap as I did. I >>know it's only $3.00, but if 100 of us bit, this guy made $300 for his posting! >> >Dana Whisonant-Schulter >http://www.angelfire.com/biz/kryptkeeper/ > >>