Attachment: Forwarded Message Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 17:15:48 EST From: KRobi91002@aol.com To: RAMSEY-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [RAMSEY surname] Ethics > Hi everyone. this came as a message from the listowner for the > Rockingham, New Hamspshire list that I belong to. I thought everyone > ought to see what is going on. Mr. Marston has asked that we send this > along to the lists we belong to so I am doing so. Please read the whole > message to see what is going on. I think at the very least we ought to > take it as a warning and a reminder that not all we find is correct > information and just use it as a tool to look further. > > Lee Neilsen in Eastern Utah > <A HREF="mailto:lloydi@ubtanet.com">lloydi@ubtanet.com</A> > ************************* > Dick Marston wrote: > > Listers: > > I have naively included a link to GenForum for those wishing to post and > respond to Rockingham and Marston surname queries. Furthermore, I have > innocently posted several responses on those forums. Today, I have amended > the link on Rockingham's Queries Index Page to read as follows: > > **If you want still another place to search and post, try the Rockingham > county message board on [ genforum.genealogy.com/nh/rockingham/ ] WARNING!! > Any information which you share on GenForum's message boards may be copied > by Genealogy.com [/FamilyTreeMaker.com] and sold by them for profit either > as data included on a monthly/annual subscription or as a CD for purchase. > Much of this information is totally unreliable. Caveat emptor [Buyer > beware]. In order to see what, if any, information Genealogy.com has > acquired from your voluntary contributions, you will first need to > subscribe to their service available to paying members only.** > > I am SO angry I could spit!! Until I started checking up on this fiasco > about my father's pedigree, I had NO clue that Genealogy.com was doing > this. I want to declare WAR! I can't get through to their leaders, but I > sure would like to get through to their potential customers and unwitting > voluntary contributors. > > Please feel free to copy and paste [or send] this warning wherever, or to > whomever, you think might do the most good. You may post it as your own > message or as a quote from me, whichever you prefer. Your help will be > greatly appreciated. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/