Can anyone on this list tell me if this is true??? Thanks for your help, Please reply to me privately:-) Cindy Listen to the Angels! The Quackenbosch/Quackenbush Family Page http://genweb.net/~cindy/Quackenbush/index.html The Anneke Jans and Everardus Bogardus Web Page http://genweb.net/~cindy/Anneke/page0.htm ----- Original Message ----- From: Cindy <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2000 1:21 PM Subject: Re: [Fwd: WHY???] > Dear Cindy, > > Our site is in the process of indexing names from the entire internet. > Though we also have more than 45 million pedigree names that are > displayed > from our site. The names that we have indexed from the web only point to > the links on the web from which they came. > > Our indexing robot is the same activity in which other search engines > are engaged. Most people are aware they can use other search engines to > obtain the link to your data and when we show a link in our free > Ancestral Archive Index we show which links come from the Internet. At > this point a patron can decide if they want to use another Search Engine > which derives its income from advertisers to find your site or if they > want to use our service to find your site. Our service includes 30 plus > million other searchable pedigree linked names that cannot be found > through other search engines. > > Our indexing of the web falls under the fair use doctrine of > copyright law. A parallel would be the company Chemical Abstracts > Service in Columbus, OH. They maintain an index to numerous abstracts > of copyrighted research work. A scientist subscribes to the service to > make his searching easier. The scientist could use other methods of > finding the data such as scanning numerous scientific publications but > having a searchable index saves him time and effort. As I mentioned > earlier the information is provided free in the Ancestral Archive Index. > It shows that the data is found on the Internet. At that point the user > can decide for himself if he wants to use another search engine or our > service. > Users can get into the subscription services area free by doing an > extraction. > > No one needs to get your permission to provide a link to your site. > According to web caselaw the fact that you have provided a links to your > data implies that you give permission for someone to link to it. We are > not selling your data we are only providing an index to links on the web > as explained in the previous paragraph. In fact the links provide more > traffic to your site and therefore it is considered a benefit by the > courts. > > Sincerely, Cindy > [email protected] >
Inconnect.com - that is KindredKonnection. They are rogue of the worst kind. They index and link, then in turn frame your site, and charge $$ to see your site. Some complaints had been made against KindredKonnections and reported on other mailing lists. Some of sites KK indexed included those at Rootsweb, infuriating some webmasters already as it is. Need to install killer javascript to break out of their frames. Here it is. This must be entered exact this way. however, somebody else needs to provide robots.txt which contains information telling unauthorized robots not to index your site. <HTML> <HEAD> <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> <!-- Hide script from old browsers if (top.location !=self.location) { top.location = self.location } // End hiding script from old browsers --> </SCRIPT> <TITLE>***</TITLE> </HEAD> I will be most glad if somebody just send us simple instructions for setting up robots.txt file. W. David Samuelsen Ghost Hunter wrote: > > Can anyone on this list tell me if this is true??? > > Thanks for your help, > Please reply to me privately:-) > Cindy > > Listen to the Angels! > > The Quackenbosch/Quackenbush Family Page > http://genweb.net/~cindy/Quackenbush/index.html > > The Anneke Jans and Everardus Bogardus Web Page > http://genweb.net/~cindy/Anneke/page0.htm > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Cindy <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2000 1:21 PM > Subject: Re: [Fwd: WHY???] > > > Dear Cindy, > > > > Our site is in the process of indexing names from the entire internet. > > Though we also have more than 45 million pedigree names that are > > displayed > > from our site. The names that we have indexed from the web only point to > > the links on the web from which they came. > > > > Our indexing robot is the same activity in which other search engines > > are engaged. Most people are aware they can use other search engines to > > obtain the link to your data and when we show a link in our free > > Ancestral Archive Index we show which links come from the Internet. At > > this point a patron can decide if they want to use another Search Engine > > which derives its income from advertisers to find your site or if they > > want to use our service to find your site. Our service includes 30 plus > > million other searchable pedigree linked names that cannot be found > > through other search engines. > > > > Our indexing of the web falls under the fair use doctrine of > > copyright law. A parallel would be the company Chemical Abstracts > > Service in Columbus, OH. They maintain an index to numerous abstracts > > of copyrighted research work. A scientist subscribes to the service to > > make his searching easier. The scientist could use other methods of > > finding the data such as scanning numerous scientific publications but > > having a searchable index saves him time and effort. As I mentioned > > earlier the information is provided free in the Ancestral Archive Index. > > It shows that the data is found on the Internet. At that point the user > > can decide for himself if he wants to use another search engine or our > > service. > > Users can get into the subscription services area free by doing an > > extraction. > > > > No one needs to get your permission to provide a link to your site. > > According to web caselaw the fact that you have provided a links to your > > data implies that you give permission for someone to link to it. We are > > not selling your data we are only providing an index to links on the web > > as explained in the previous paragraph. In fact the links provide more > > traffic to your site and therefore it is considered a benefit by the > > courts. > > > > Sincerely, Cindy > > [email protected] > >