Alice - I may be wrong here, but I read Don's email to mean the things contributed to Rootsweb or Ancestry. The email from DAWN (before his) was talking about them taking information given to them for FREE and then charging others to look at it. I, personally, appreciate you moving the website to keep it Free and hope to contribute to it soon. That's my $.02 worth. On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 12:30 AM, Alice Warner <[email protected]> wrote: > Don, > > Are you suggesting that after I moved my site off of rootsweb to keep that > from happening, that everyone should pull their submissions from my site? > > I do respond to requests to remove data, and will do so. However the > purpose > of my site and the KYGenweb project is to promote free genealogy. One of > the > many reasons for its moving was to preserve it as a free genealogy > resource > in a way under my control. > > If you have any data on my site and are deciding that since I have gone to > great lengths to preserve it as free access data, that it still falls > under > "thievery" and you would like data removed you will have to let me know. > Suggesting that people pull out from "any of the sites" they have > contributed to is very hurtful to people like me that do work for *free* > genealogy. Pulling out from specific sites-- that's one thing. Just > pulling > all submissions-- that hurts everyone that ever wanted to see that > information. But, if you truly believe in my thievery, email me > immediately > with links on my website of anything you have ever submitted to me and I > will very willingly remove it all. > > Alice Warner > County Coordinator, Butler County KYGenweb > > On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 1:03 AM, Don Burris <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Correct you are dawn, > > They have owned this site all along but have decided that they can grab > > you by the throat and get another nickel from us, plus the fact that > > whatever we have posted seems to belong to them and not the contributor > any > > longer. I would highly suggest that those who do object to this kind of > > thievery to go back to any of the sites that you have contributed to and > > retrieve your files. You do have the right to object to their using > this > > for profit. Just download what you have in it, and send them a > statement > > telling them that they may NOT use your info in any form without written > > consent. Good job and kudos to those that have put in so much time and > > effort into saving what is being taken away for profit. > > > > Don > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: Dawn Carlile<mailto:[email protected]> > > To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> > > Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 9:49 PM > > Subject: [KYBUTLER] Moving Butler Co website off of RootsWeb > > > > > > I expect to see a number of websites moving away from RootsWeb now that > > Ancestry is running the show. They have a bad habit of confiscating > your > > freely contributed information and then charging people to look at it. > I > > am > > sure it won't be long before there is a membership fee to view it. The > > site > > looks great. I for one think red should be reserved for *new* and > special > > headings and it doesn't work well against any color other than white. > > Thank > > you for all your hard work on the Butler Co. site! > > > > > > > > Dawn > > > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> with > > the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of > the > > message > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >