On 08 Sep 2002 17:21:05 GMT, jojhenson@aol.com (Jo Ann) wrote: >Shirley has been a long time contributor to this forum, GIVING away her >research for years. >(Including the ships' lists she posted today, which as always are very helpful, >thanks Shirley!) >I have no problem with her compiling her research onto a CD. I can't imagine >she'll get rich with these things, but instead get a fair return for her hard >work. I intend to purchase one for myself, and another to send to a friend in >Sicily who is looking for relatives here. >Jo Ann "GIVING" away at $38.00 a pop? I guess we'll have to agree to disagree. Not too many years ago such a blatant sales pitch would have been met by a chorus of boos here. Now, political correctness (heaven forbid one human being correct another for breaking the rules) has allowed crass commercialism to creep into newsgroups, the one place people were spared this sort of thing. Everybody with a computer is a genealogist or has some data base or another for sale; and by golly we're going to get to hear about every one of them. Benny Rab