Don, Thanks for the background. Count me in. What list should I join? David At 01:59 PM 3/21/2008, you wrote: >Thank you David. > >Members of USGenWeb have received recent assurances that data on RW >will not be taken and archived separately, or ever sold. > >The founder of RW (Brian) says by it very nature, RW has to be free >to everyone. > >Given that, we must keep in mind that TGN through Ancestry has lied >before, so cannot be trusted to keep RW free. > >Note that not long ago TGN said mastheads would go only on free >pages accounts, and would not be placed on state/county related >websites. With recent events we see that guarantee (promise) has >already been broken. > >Our only guarantee of freedom and safety is to host our archives on >a secure server that TGN has zero control over. > >That is safe and falls within our responsibility as leaders to keep >archives and records kept by IGP project safe. > >Step by step we are doing this to protect our product. > >Chris will announce the completion of each step on the Yahoo mail list. > >Be sure to join that list so our business decisions can be >considered in a confidential armosphere. > >don > >********************************** >Longford Genealogy Website: http://www.rootsweb.com/~irllog/ > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >IRL-LONGFORD-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' >without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message