At 12:25 AM 3/25/03 -0500, you wrote: >> Doesn't seem to stop Archives folks from snatching items from the county >> pages. > >You've never given us a sample of "Archives folks" "snatching" items >from county pages. There are cases the other way around. Give us the url >of a "snatched" file and we'll check it out and remove it if it's not in >the Archives by permission. If you would advise your volunteers to be as >deligent, instead of encouraging them to copy at will, we wouldn't be >having this conversation. I don't encourage folks to copy them at will. In fact I don't encourage them to copy or link to the Archives. In the past I have encouraged them to contribute to the Archives, but not any more. I will encourage them to keep the data on their county sites - where the data should be first of all, and if the contributors wish it in your Archives, then they can send them directly to you. The Archives are not the Project. There is no valid reason for the Archives to include data that tells visitors who to contact in each county for birth, death, marriage info - as some county subsections now have. If the files under your section called Georgia are not for Georgia CCs to use and are not a part of GAGenWeb, then please remove our state logo from your pages. It's high time the SCs wake up to the fact that the Archives are trying to be the whole Project and thus negate the reason for having State and county pages except perhaps as conduits for the Archives, or to handle what few items the great vacuum noise of the Archives swooping in everything under their umbrella deigns is not worthy of inclusion. Tim