I wanted to forward the reply I received when I asked Kindred Konnections why they were using frames to link to my site and I asked them to remove them. Yes I do intend to ask why they don't provide the entire url for web sites and why they feel they are above common courtesy. Any link to personal sites I have on my web page I sent an email to ask permission to link to that site. Maybe I was just brought up wrong! ;-) Still Sharing! Cindy Listen to the Angels! The Quackenbosch/Quackenbush Family Page http://genweb.net/~cindy/Quackenbush/index.html The Anneke Jans and Everardus Bogardus Web Page http://genweb.net/~cindy/Anneke/page0.htm ----- Original Message ----- From: Cindy <cindyc@inconnect.com> To: <gosthunt@capital.net> Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2000 1:21 PM Subject: Re: [Fwd: WHY???] > Dear Cindy, > > Our site is in the process of indexing names from the entire internet. > Though we also have more than 45 million pedigree names that are > displayed > from our site. The names that we have indexed from the web only point to > the links on the web from which they came. > > Our indexing robot is the same activity in which other search engines > are engaged. Most people are aware they can use other search engines to > obtain the link to your data and when we show a link in our free > Ancestral Archive Index we show which links come from the Internet. At > this point a patron can decide if they want to use another Search Engine > which derives its income from advertisers to find your site or if they > want to use our service to find your site. Our service includes 30 plus > million other searchable pedigree linked names that cannot be found > through other search engines. > > Our indexing of the web falls under the fair use doctrine of > copyright law. A parallel would be the company Chemical Abstracts > Service in Columbus, OH. They maintain an index to numerous abstracts > of copyrighted research work. A scientist subscribes to the service to > make his searching easier. The scientist could use other methods of > finding the data such as scanning numerous scientific publications but > having a searchable index saves him time and effort. As I mentioned > earlier the information is provided free in the Ancestral Archive Index. > It shows that the data is found on the Internet. At that point the user > can decide for himself if he wants to use another search engine or our > service. > Users can get into the subscription services area free by doing an > extraction. > > No one needs to get your permission to provide a link to your site. > According to web caselaw the fact that you have provided a links to your > data implies that you give permission for someone to link to it. We are > not selling your data we are only providing an index to links on the web > as explained in the previous paragraph. In fact the links provide more > traffic to your site and therefore it is considered a benefit by the > courts. > > Sincerely, Cindy > nobody1@inconnect.com >