You may be getting this twice Pam. I am resending since I'm not sure it got anywhere. It sent itself while I was in the middle of composing. <g> Looking over it I believe I said everything I intended to. Sorry, Ginger gingerh@shawneelink.com -----Original Message----- From: Ginger <gingerh@shawneelink.com> To: BOARD-L@rootsweb.com <BOARD-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Monday, November 01, 1999 7:34 AM Subject: Re: Fw: [BOARD-L] NE-NC Advisory Board Rep & other concerns > > > >Ginger >gingerh@shawneelink.com > >-----Original Message----- >From: Pam Carey Durstock (by way of Tim Stowell <tstowell@chattanooga.net>) ><durp@one.net> >To: BOARD-L@rootsweb.com <BOARD-L@rootsweb.com> >Date: Monday, November 01, 1999 6:17 AM >Subject: Re: Fw: [BOARD-L] NE-NC Advisory Board Rep & other concerns > > >>Hi Teri, >> >>I'm sending my response directly to BOARD-L. If it doesn't make it there, >>will you forward this for me? (If it does make it there, my apologies for >>your receiving 2 copies) --Pam >> >> >>>----- Original Message ----- >>>From: Teri Pettit <pettit@Adobe.COM> >>>To: <BOARD-L@rootsweb.com> >>>Sent: Sunday, October 31, 1999 10:42 PM >>>Subject: Re: [BOARD-L] NE-NC Advisory Board Rep & other concerns >>> >>>I think we should get a clear written answer from GenConnect and >>>Rootsweb what the policy is on this kind of reformatting. <<snip>> >> >Hi Pam >> >>Neither GenConnect nor RootsWeb have any objection whatsoever with a CC >>reformatting copies of the queries from a GenConnect board which that CC >>admins, and putting the reformatted queries on their website ... no matter >>where that website is (for the purposes of clarity, "website" is *not* >>defined as another web-based bulletin board system). > >As you know I am not a GenConnect fan. Not that I don't think it is a >great tool, but I don't think the present use of GC by the USGW Project >CC's is fair to either the CC's or the researchers. As has been stated, >and shown, numerous times, GC is not a part of the USGW Project. >It is in fact a stand alone project and those CC's who use it are in fact >GC volunteers. The problem comes in that CC's who began using >GC thought it was "theirs", and that perception was fostered by GC. > >The researchers who leave information and queries on a GC board that >they access from a county website believe they are leaving that query >or information with the USGW Project. This, in fact, is not the case. >Material that they believe they are submitting to USGW is actually being >submitted to GC, and is not under the care and/or control of the USGW >Project, the intended recipient. While most researchers would not care, >I still don't like misconceptions and misrepresentation. > >It is my firm belief that any USGW Project affiliated website that uses >GC as a means of collecting queries and other information should >carry a disclosure statement informing researchers that any information >submitted to these boards is being submitted to GenConnect, >that GenConnect is not a part of the USGenWeb Project and any material >submitted there is not under the care and/or control of the USGW Project. > >> ><sni >If what you say is true then allowing reformatting and placing of queries on >a county site can not be done without the permission of the original poster. >Admittedly I'm not very familiar with GC but in the boards I have visited >I have not seen anything plainly posted informing a visitor that by placing >a query on the board they are also giving permission for that query to be >copied and reposted elsewhere. >> >>If a CC prefers a system that merely collects and formats the queries for >>them, but desires to have the queries on their website and nowhere else, >>Query Express would be a better choice for them. GenConnect is designed >>for long-term storage and searchability. >> >>Only under clearly defined situations may individual queries be deleted >>without the poster's permission. And under no circumstances may a board be >>"wiped out" without the permission of all the posters. >> >>In a nutshell, copying/reformatting/uploading elsewhere is perfectly fine, >>deleting them after copying is not permitted. >> >>Pam Carey Durstock >>GenConnect Developer >>pam@rootsweb.com >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >