To: [email protected] Resent-From: [email protected] X-Mailing-List: <[email protected]> archive/latest/6320 X-Loop: [email protected] Precedence: list Resent-Sender: [email protected] X-UIDL: 9b8efac4a0b4c0d9007afd1c58cf4ba8 > I think Rootsweb is the baby of all the people who sponsor it -the > list-owners and the members.- and spend their time contributing in > making it such a big place on the internet. YES! RootsWeb is *all* of ours. That's what the "Cooperative" in RootsWeb Genealogical Data Cooperative means. If the Palladium sponsorship changed the way we operate in *any* way, you can bet Karen and I would have brought the matter to the membership. But it doesn't change us. At all. This sponsorship is *exactly* like the sponsorships most of us paid: it's a voluntary contribution Palladium has made to help support the whole community. > I DO think I have a right and a say when my material and the material of > the members of my mailing list go into an archives and then belongs to > someone else, not just Rootsweb and a commercial company at that. ?. > Please don't forget, that information in the archives mostly belong to > the members of the list, and they have trusted us to take care of it. We > have a responsibility to them also, not just a responsibility to > Rootsweb. > And doesn't anyone think that Rootsweb has a responsibility to us as > co-workers here? As contributors to their cause? Nothing has changed with the ownership of material at RootsWeb. !!! NOTHING !!! Everything belongs to the authors, same as always. There's not a chance in the world we'd ever do anything that would affect users' information. No way. Absolutely no. Never. Was I clear enough? (: Cheers, B.