try putting in rootsweb.com and have a look at some of the comments! I don't think we should be using this email group:-)I've put in a few web addresses and the ratings seem to correlate to the popularity of the site rather than anything else. Provided you have good security software on your pc you shouldn't have problems with any site. cheers, Anne > Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 20:01:42 +0100 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [SRY] SRY etc. Newpaper clippings > > Fionnghal wrote: > > hi Nivard, I'd like to think it is a safe site, as i, like many researchers, love news clip web pages, however, i tried the site www.newspaperdetectives.co.uk/ again and once again the screen filled with a warning. i then googled 'newspaperdetectives' and up came three returns, all with WOT's traffic light warnings > > > > I then looked the page up on WOT's website and came up with their grading. Though doing well in the trusworthy department, it seems it has flagged up red on vendor reliability. I'm not sure why that is. Some folk must have felt they'd got their fingers burnt and downmarked it. I have to say I've found WOT very reliable however, I appreciate that maybe for some reason a site could have been graded wrongly. Nothing is perfect. > > > > I'm not sure if non-members can read this scorecard, but this is what it says about the newspaperdetectives site: > > http://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/newspaperdetectives.co.uk > > Hallo > > I could read it. I do not understand why a newspaper site should have > a waarning that its child safety is not good. I don't think they are > good themselves if newsspapers are considered bad. > > I have never heard of Webof Trust before. I don't think it is a good > idea to rely on other people to tell you what is good and what is bad. > If someone has a bad experience with a site it would be easy for > them to keep going back to Web of Trust nd saying the site was a bad > one when really it wasn't. > > I put freebmd into the search box and it said vendor reliability was > excellent. Freebmd doesn't sell anything. > > I don't think I'd trust Web of Trsut. I thinkit is a bit of a con. > > Jean Hunter > Kent > *************************************** > Send your List messages using **PLAIN TEXT** and always **TRIM AWAY** superfluous old messages in replies. > > List Admin can be contacted at: [email protected] > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hi Anne I did as you suggested, then read the comments - the newest one appears to be over two years old. Technology is racing along at such a fast pace, it wouldn't surprise me if those comments don't apply today. If all users were responsible and heeded the information in your final sentence there should not be any problem with a virus or other 'nasty' happening! Regards, Veronica -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Anne Capewell Sent: Wednesday, 31 August, 2011 12:35 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [SRY] SRY etc. Newpaper clippings try putting in rootsweb.com and have a look at some of the comments! I don't think we should be using this email group:-)I've put in a few web addresses and the ratings seem to correlate to the popularity of the site rather than anything else. Provided you have good security software on your pc you shouldn't have problems with any site. cheers, Anne > Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 20:01:42 +0100 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [SRY] SRY etc. Newpaper clippings > > Fionnghal wrote: > > hi Nivard, I'd like to think it is a safe site, as i, like many researchers, love news clip web pages, however, i tried the site www.newspaperdetectives.co.uk/ again and once again the screen filled with a warning. i then googled 'newspaperdetectives' and up came three returns, all with WOT's traffic light warnings > > > > I then looked the page up on WOT's website and came up with their grading. Though doing well in the trusworthy department, it seems it has flagged up red on vendor reliability. I'm not sure why that is. Some folk must have felt they'd got their fingers burnt and downmarked it. I have to say I've found WOT very reliable however, I appreciate that maybe for some reason a site could have been graded wrongly. Nothing is perfect. > > > > I'm not sure if non-members can read this scorecard, but this is what it says about the newspaperdetectives site: > > http://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/newspaperdetectives.co.uk > > Hallo > > I could read it. I do not understand why a newspaper site should have > a waarning that its child safety is not good. I don't think they are > good themselves if newsspapers are considered bad. > > I have never heard of Webof Trust before. I don't think it is a good > idea to rely on other people to tell you what is good and what is bad. > If someone has a bad experience with a site it would be easy for > them to keep going back to Web of Trust nd saying the site was a bad > one when really it wasn't. > > I put freebmd into the search box and it said vendor reliability was > excellent. Freebmd doesn't sell anything. > > I don't think I'd trust Web of Trsut. I thinkit is a bit of a con. > > Jean Hunter > Kent > *************************************** > Send your List messages using **PLAIN TEXT** and always **TRIM AWAY** superfluous old messages in replies. > > List Admin can be contacted at: [email protected] > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message *************************************** Send your List messages using **PLAIN TEXT** and always **TRIM AWAY** superfluous old messages in replies. List Admin can be contacted at: [email protected] ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 10.0.1392 / Virus Database: 1520/3868 - Release Date: 08/30/11

As I have used this site for many stories of my Waterer family, and have never had any problems with it. Stories I would never had been able to find as I am in Canada ----- Original Message ----- From: Anne Capewell <[email protected]> Date: Wednesday, August 31, 2011 1:36 pm Subject: Re: [SRY] SRY etc. Newpaper clippings To: [email protected] > > try putting in rootsweb.com and have a look at some of the > comments! I don't think we should be using this email group:- > )I've put in a few web addresses and the ratings seem to > correlate to the popularity of the site rather than anything > else. Provided you have good security software on your pc you > shouldn't have problems with any site. cheers, Anne >  > Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 20:01:42 +0100 > > From: [email protected] > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [SRY] SRY etc. Newpaper clippings > > > > Fionnghal wrote: > > > hi Nivard, I'd like to think it is a safe site, as i, like > many researchers, love news clip web pages, however, i tried the > site  www.newspaperdetectives.co.uk/  again and once > again the screen filled with a warning.  i then googled  > 'newspaperdetectives' and up came three returns, all with WOT's  > traffic light warnings > > > > > > I then looked the page up on WOT's website and came up with > their grading.  Though doing well in the trusworthy > department, it seems it has flagged up red on vendor > reliability. I'm not sure why that is.  Some folk must have > felt they'd got their fingers burnt and downmarked it.  I > have to say I've found WOT very reliable however, I appreciate > that maybe for some reason a site could have been graded > wrongly.  Nothing is perfect. > > > > > > I'm not sure if non-members can read this scorecard, but > this is what it says about the newspaperdetectives site: > > > > http://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/newspaperdetectives.co.uk  > > > > Hallo > > > > I could read it. I do not understand why a newspaper site > should have > > a waarning that its child safety is not good.  I don't > think they are > > good themselves if newsspapers are considered bad. > > > > I have never heard of Webof Trust before.  I don't think > it is a good > > idea to rely on other people to tell you what is good and what > is bad. > >   If someone has a bad experience with a site it > would be easy for > > them to keep going back to Web of Trust nd saying the site was > a bad > > one when really it wasn't. > > > > I put freebmd into the search box and it said vendor > reliability was > > excellent.  Freebmd doesn't sell anything. > > > > I don't think I'd trust Web of Trsut.  I thinkit is a bit > of a con. > > > > Jean Hunter > > Kent > > *************************************** > > Send your List messages using **PLAIN TEXT** and always **TRIM > AWAY** superfluous old messages in replies. > > > > List Admin can be contacted at:  Eng-Surrey- > [email protected] > >   > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ENG- > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >                                                > *************************************** > Send your List messages using **PLAIN TEXT** and always **TRIM > AWAY** superfluous old messages in replies. > > List Admin can be contacted at:  Eng-Surrey- > [email protected] >   > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ENG-SURREY- > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Anne Capewell wrote: > try putting in rootsweb.com and have a look at some of the > comments! I don't think we should be using this email group:-)I've > put in a few web addresses and the ratings seem to correlate to the > popularity of the site rather than anything else. Provided you have > good security software on your pc you shouldn't have problems with > any site. cheers, Anne Hallo Some of the comments are funny and untruthful. I think you are right. We mustn't use the mailing list. (smile). The people who made the silly comments don't know anything abut rootsweb. I put in Ancestry and findmypast. I don't think their results are accurate. My nephew looks after the security programmes. I am learning slowly though. Jean Hunter Kent