Cousins, listmembers - Because of concern for those of you who work so hard compliling your data for your web pages, I thought you should read this message posted to several lists today. if you receive more than one copy, please excuse. Also, if you are entering info into your website, please join us on Copyright-L as detailed in the post below. Carol (Listowner for the GEN-MAT lists, IMMI-GRAND, RAN-CLAY, ALBLOUNT, ALTUSCAL, Agnew, Bailey, Barker, Bell, Bowen, Bozeman, Cannon, Carwile, Cloud, Creel, Crowder, Couts, DeVaughn, Ferguson, Forde, Gannon, Garrett, Grogan, Head, Humphreys, Jordan, King, Knotts, Lipscomb, Lynch, Page, Poole, Pursley, Roland, Sapp and Thompson) ******************* >From: Dayna Cohen McMullen <mcmullen@bigfoot.com> >Subject: BEWARE--Your data could be taken next..(long) > >Hi Folks, > > Just a quick warning about a "person" who is building quite >a nice web site by taking our data right off the web pages where >we either put it ourselves or where we gave someone permission >to post it..... > >The site: "The World Genealogy Archives" (not be confused with USGenWeb!!) >TWGA is located at: <http://oasis.slcc.edu/search/> >Maintained by a dirtbag named Matt Roller. > >I found the Alligood Cemetery records I transcribed to my Colquitt Co., GAGenWeb >page there this morning. He DID NOT have my permission to lift them off my web >site! He didn't ask! When I confronted him, he won't answer me or the others >who have also emailed him. > >I also found both of the TATE bibles and the MASHBURN bible text I submitted to >Anna Buxton's site "The Bible Archives at Matt Roller's site this morning. Anna >told me today that he never asked her to use them. He sure didn't ask me. >He even >used my dialog verbatum, including the people's nicknames from our bible >records. > >If you have records online like these, census, wills, deaths, burials, obits, >marriages, births, diaries, journals, newletters, and so on...you might want >to check there to see if he has taken your info too. > >I talked to several people on the GALINA list this morning who also found their >records at his site after I told them where to look. There are more victims on >the new Copyright-l list too. > >What can you do about this you ask.....you can subscribe to a new list and find >out more about your rights to your data. It's called COPYRIGHT-L and to >subscribe >send a message to: >COPYRIGHT-L-request@rootsweb.com > >with this command: subscribe in the body of the message. Don't forget >to turn >off your signature block. > >Another thing you can do is visit Matt Roller's guestbook and tell him what you >think of people who steal data off our web pages. The url for his guestbook is: > >http://144.35.8.177/search/guestbook.htm > >And finally, you are free to contact his internet host which happens to be >(can you believe it?) Salt Lake City Community College > > >Contributed by Dr. Brian Leverich and added here with his permission: > ### > >Frank W. Budd <-- Campus President, Head Honcho > >Department: President's Office >Phone: (801) 957-3311 >E-Mail: buddfr@slcc.edu > > ### > >Marjorie Carson <-- Second in command > >Department: Vice President >Phone: (801) 957-4884 >E-Mail: CarsonMa@slcc.edu > > ### > >It's probably possible to dig all sorts of other interesting >addresses out of the www.slcc.edu Website: I'd particularly >recommend looking for the Executive Dean or somesuch and the >Department of Public Safety. Senior deans and campus police both >(for different reasons) tend to take dim views of things that cause >problems off-campus. -B > >And lastly, you can boycott his site, other than to tell him what you think >in his guestbook, and >show your support to the many people he has stolen from. People think he >has worked so hard at >building a nice web site but little do they know how he got most of his >data. Rather than just >decide not to put your data out there for someone to take, why not stand up >against people like >him and put them out of commission. Let's not deprive ourselves of the >wonderful sharing and >exchange we now enjoy because of people like Matt Roller. Thanks for your time! > > > >Dayna Cohen McMullen mailto:mcmullen@bigfoot.com >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >Genealogist against plagiarism--Please Boycott: >* GenForum by Cliff Shaw at: <http://www.genforum.com/> >* World Genealogy Archive by Matt Roller at: > <http://oasis.slcc.edu/search/> > NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH USGenWeb Archives!! >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Dayna's Southern Genealogy Page >http://home.texoma.net/~mmcmullen/welcome.html >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Need a web page? Drop by: >Dayna's Web Designs--Genealogy & GenWeb sites >http://www.10mb.com/daynadesigns/welcome.html >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > >