-----Original Message----- From: Janet E. Crowley <kyblue@micron.net> To: KYGEN-L@rootsweb.com <KYGEN-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Friday, June 11, 1999 7:10 AM Subject: RE: [KYGEN-L] RootsWeb Competing? >I agree totally with John. I have never put pages on Rootsweb, because I >feared that those "free" pages would end up with too many caveats to deal >with. And, I prefer to use CCHelper to do my queries rather than >GenConnect -- yes, it takes more time and effort, but I think the result is >more usable for the researchers to my site. I'm paying a bundle each month >for my site because of the downloads, but I've always felt that that was the >best contribution I could make to genealogy at this time because I have >limited time to do my own research and try to pay back all the people who >have helped me. > >If Rootsweb is soliciting people to create counties on Rootsweb for those >USGenWeb sites that are not located on Rootsweb, then I feel this is >inappropriate. It seems to me that if Rootsweb really wants to benefit >genealogy, their best bet would be to support and enhance what already >exists on USGenWeb vs starting up some kind of "competition". > >Janet Elam Crowley >kyblue@micron.net >KyGenWeb Bath County: http://www.webpak.net/~kyblue/bath/index.htm > > >-----Original Message----- >From: John G. West [mailto:mylines@evansville.net] >Sent: Thursday, June 10, 1999 6:17 PM >To: KYGEN-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: [KYGEN-L] RootsWeb Competing? > > >The only problem I see with what RootsWeb has put up is that when you have >a USGW County on Rootsweb it has a link to your page (which is what you are >saying, Nancy and that is fine), however if you have yours on say >Evansville Online because it has a great system for editing your website - >RootsWeb says this county does not yet have a web page on RootsWeb, which >is a true statement, but further states that you can contact RootsWeb for a >web page - suggesting that the visitor could create a county site on >RootsWeb for one of the counties I host for USGW on another server. Now, >it does not matter if there is 20 pages up for my county, but there seems >to be something inappropriate for RootsWeb to solicit competition for USGW >counties hosted on other servers. I have three counties on RootsWeb and >two on Evansville Online, if I decide to move any of them it will be the >RootsWeb counties. JGW > >At 03:52 PM 6/10/99 -0500, Nancy Trice wrote: >>At 09:49 AM 6/10/99 -0700, Patrick Hays wrote: >>>We didn't vote on this. Rootsweb just decided to take over. See message >>>below. This is what we get from electing a weak board, implementing >>>worthless bylaws and being too connected to Rootsweb. >>> >> >> >>Rootsweb hasn't taken over anything. They have put up a series of pages on >>their server pointing to information found on their server, exactly like >>every other server does. Go take a look at GenForum or GenExchange or any >>of the other genealogy servers out there. Do they have a prominent link to >>your page... or to the page they have on their server for your county or >>your surname? >> >>If your county page is on RW it is now easier than ever for folks to find >>you if they visit the main RW page. If your county page is not on RW what >>difference does it make? Your county is still linked to from the XXGenWeb >>page and the XXGenWeb page is still linked to from the USGenWeb page which >>is still linked to from the main RootsWeb page. If you are using any of the >>GenConnect boards there is a prominent link to your page whatever server it >>happens to be on. >> >>If your complaint is that you don't have your pages on RootsWeb and you >>don't use GenConnect and you don't have a county mail list so your pages >>are not prominently linked on the RW pages, whose fault is that? RootsWeb >>offered everyone free space and free mail lists for their counties for over >>3 years. When GenConnect started a year and a half ago, it was offered to >>everyone to use for their queries and later for their data. If anyone has >>chosen not to use the RootsWeb space, list or GenConnect, they have no >>reason to complain about not being listed on the RW page. >> >>The bylaws and the board has nothing to do with any of this. Even if the >>bylaws were perfect they wouldn't say that the counties have to have their >>pages on this server or that server... folks wouldn't stand for it. >>Everyone wants their choice of where to put their pages, whether that is >>GeoCities like you have done or RootsWeb like many of us have, or their own >>server or domain like I tried last year. The bylaws and the board can't >>dictate that regardless of how strong or weak they are. >> >>nt >> >> >>==== KYGEN Mailing List ==== >>GenConnect Query System >>http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/index.html >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > > >==== KYGEN Mailing List ==== >GenConnect Query System >http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/index.html > > > > > >==== KYGEN Mailing List ==== >GenConnect Query System >http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/index.html > >