On Sun, 25 Oct 1998, Linnie Howell wrote: > Hi all, > > This conversation has raised a couple of questions in my mind. Are your, or > whoever, suggesting that the information on our county pages also be stored in > the archives? It just seems like a waste of space to double post. I realize > that any conty coordinator can stop being a cc and pull down all the pages they > have posted. I would be interested in knowing whether anyone knows if this has > happened. I guess I just find it hard to believe that anyone who has been > actively involved as a county coordinator would take down information if they > decided they could no longer devote the time needed to maintain a county. <> I > just realized that there could be other reasons for a cc to remove pages. > Yes, it has happened. A county coordinator in Georgia just wiped out everything on his site that he was giving up. > Anyway, would be interested in knowing whether you think all the county info > should also be posted in the archives. I believe that one reason cc's haven't > done this in the past is that the "rules" for the archives said the information > posted belonged to the archives and not the submitter. This particular "rule" > was changed in the latest update to the by-laws, wasn't it? Or was it? The files belong to the person that donated them. It is hoped that they would leave them there forever. However, some have been deleted recently at the request of the person that did the research and donated them. David dmorgan@efn.org * David W. Morgan * Honolulu Hawaii ASC * GAGenWeb * http://www.rootsweb.com/~gagenweb/ http://www.rootsweb.com/~gagenweb/regional.html http://www.rootsweb.com/~gagenweb/cc.html