There's another thing worth mentioning about these ads. Although I don't know if it's true in this case, I know scores of websites covering a variety of subjects that accept this type advertising as a method of keeping their content free. Neither websites nor maintaining them come without cost. Whenever someone clicks on one of those ads, the website gets paid some set amount. I'm all for free content. And if I have to click on ad ot two every now and again I certainly have no problems with that. Bill Hart On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 23:58 -0700, W. David Samuelsen wrote: > Very clear you do NOT understand the role of the ads. These ads are NOT > what requires you to do it. Next time you visit, you will see complete > different sets of ads and that one you complained the loudest about will > not even be there. > > Rootsweb will tell you they do it too. Worldconnect which is part of > Rootsweb has the ads and they don't require you to click on them, > either. The home page of Rootsweb even have same Google ads, too. They > do NOT require you to click on these ads. > > There is absolute NOTHING requiring you to click on those small Google ads! > > Those little ads are even all over on Ancestry.com, the OWNER of > Rootsweb. This has been going on for over 7 years now. > > It's everywhere! Even your favorite online newspaper has them. > > These little ads are backed by big companies willing to pay $$ to place > them. Nothing is required from you to do it. The money from them go to > help keep this site FREE access to all. > > and based on your complaint, you will have to BAN Rootsweb/Ancestry.com > mailing lists, ban Footnote.com, ban findagrave.com, ban > WorldVitalRecords.com - all because of the little Google ads FROM YOUR BOX. > > PS, Rootsweb staff (in fact it is same staff as Ancestry.com) already > visited these sites and many other sites and APPROVED and allowed for > mere announcements in the interest of the genealogy. > > David Samuelsen > > Daniel David Lewis Frommherz (1) wrote: > > As the admin for several lists. I am deeply disappointed in the > > contents of this email. It says free death search of ancestor but what > > you get is a required registration of $29.95 cheaper than a Private > > Detective it says. What a load why is this allowed on the Rootsweb.com > > list. I am sending a complaint to Rootsweb.com immediately this type of > > thing isn't in keeping with what Rootsweb.com is all about. > > > > RE: To Rootsweb.com Help Desk and the Admin of Cattaraugus County: > > > > On the list for Cattaraugus County tonight I opened a message from > > Sampubco that indicated searches of Cemeteries. In the bottom left > > corner is an advertisement for death searches it says free but it is not > > free it requires at minimum of $29.95 to get any information beyond the > > name and even that is ambiguous. there is nothing on their search page > > that would even indicate if this person was actually found. This is a > > complaint also being filed with the Admin of Cattaraugus County, New > > York. I can tell you folks on this list that as the admin of several > > lists if Sampubco had tried this it would be considered SPAM and I would > > delete it and mark them Persona Non Grata forever. > > > > Daniel > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NYCATTAR-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Bill Hart wrote: > There's another thing worth mentioning about these ads. > > Although I don't know if it's true in this case, I know scores of > websites covering a variety of subjects that accept this type > advertising as a method of keeping their content free. > > Neither websites nor maintaining them come without cost. Whenever > someone clicks on one of those ads, the website gets paid some set > amount. I'm all for free content. And if I have to click on ad ot two > every now and again I certainly have no problems with that. > > Bill Hart All I can say, thank you! David Samuelsen

Bill I am perturbed by this especially when the ad comes in the guise of a subscriber to anylist@rootsweb.com there is no need to have this garbage and as I told Mr. Samualsen his email usually ends of with costing someone some money to get his information. This is what sampubco is all about. It is his business to sell information. I have banned him from my admin lists and I have blocked him from contacting me personally. I also warn folks who write me asking for info which is generally free if they ask for how to find it. Daniel ----- Original Message ----- From: Bill Hart To: nycattar@rootsweb.com Cc: Daniel David Lewis Frommherz (1) Sent: Thursday, November 05, 2009 11:00 AM Subject: Re: [NYCATTAR] More gravemarker photos since Sept 28 There's another thing worth mentioning about these ads. Although I don't know if it's true in this case, I know scores of websites covering a variety of subjects that accept this type advertising as a method of keeping their content free. Neither websites nor maintaining them come without cost. Whenever someone clicks on one of those ads, the website gets paid some set amount. I'm all for free content. And if I have to click on ad ot two every now and again I certainly have no problems with that. Bill Hart Previous emails deleted subject line changed