In a message dated 4/12/01 1:40:40 AM Eastern Daylight Time, Gypsy writes: > Subj: Fwd: FYI > Date: 4/12/01 1:40:40 AM Eastern Daylight Time > > BCC: Firehair2 > > > > > ----------------- > Forwarded Message: > Subj: > Date: 4/12/01 1:35:58 AM Eastern Daylight Time > > > From: phaines@rockisland.com (Priscilla Haines) > To: CAN-NS-GUYSBOROUGH-L@rootsweb.com > > John Slaughter had this on another list that I am on. I think we need to be > aware of this tendency to bring ugly material into our web sites. Priscilla > This post is in regard to an announcement made by Yahoo. Yahoo owns > GeoCities where quite a few people have genealogy related sites. It has > always been Geocities' policy that there be nothing sexually explicit on any > sites there. > Now, Yahoo has decided that it will sell sexually explicit pictures and > such directly from their site. This could easily mean that GeoCities will > become a host for pornographic sites. > I strongly urge anyone who has a site at GeoCities to find a new host. > Rootsweb is one option. > Under no circumstances will I ever visit a site that I know to be > associated with Yahoo in any way. This is the only way to fight against > them. > The majority of their revenue is from advertisers. Everytime you visit a > site with advertising on it, money goes to Yahoo from the advertiser. If a > person clicks on the advertisement and visits the advertiser, even more > money goes to Yahoo. > Help fight the proliferation of porn and promote the family values by > moving your site from GeoCities and boycotting any Yahoo related sites. >