If you're perturbed, you're perturbed; there's not much I can do about that. In my opinion - and you're totally free to disagree with it - there was nothing wrong or off topic with Mr. Samuelson's post regarding new gravestones. But then, I'm neither the list mom nor will I pretend to speak for him (or her). And if you want to ban him from the list you administer, that's your prerogative. If it's the ads on newyorkgravestones.org you find offensive, you need to realize that ads are ads are ads - short for advertisements. The definition of advertisement: ad·ver·tise·ment noun 1. a paid announcement, as of goods for sale, in newspapers or magazines, on radio or television, etc. 2. a public notice, esp. in print. 3. the action of making generally known; a calling to the attention of the public: The news of this event will receive wide advertisement. Note definition 1 - they're out to sell you something; think of it as capitalism. And putting the word "Free" in an ad is like waving a red flag in front of a bull. Never assume anything is "free". I've dealt with sampubco. So he sells information; lots of people do. The question isn't "Can I get the information sold there elsewhere?" because you can. The question is "How much is it going to cost me to get the information for free?" There's actually enough information posted on the sampubco site so you can find the information elsewhere. There's just a lot of grunt work to do. And grunts typically don't work for free. Bill p.s. my spam filter blocked your reply; I haven't quite figured out why. On Thu, 2009-11-05 at 13:30 -0800, Daniel David Lewis Frommherz (1) wrote: >  > 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