fyi icq#4202467 -----Original Message----- From: Bridgett Smith <bascs@snark.wizard.com> To: TNGEN-L@rootsweb.com <TNGEN-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Sunday, November 01, 1998 11:51 AM Subject: [TNGEN-L] (Fwd) [STATE-COORD-L] Fw: info FYI ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- Date forwarded: Sun, 1 Nov 1998 06:01:39 -0800 (PST) From: "Don Spidell" <dspidell@zekes.com> Date sent: Sun, 1 Nov 1998 06:54:37 -0700 Subject: [STATE-COORD-L] Fw: info To: STATE-COORD-L@rootsweb.com Forwarded by: STATE-COORD-L@rootsweb.com Send reply to: STATE-COORD-L@rootsweb.com Verrry interesting! You might want to forward this to your own mailing lists. Don Spidell -----Original Message----- From: George Newbury <georgen@supercity.ns.ca> To: LUNEN-LINKS-L@rootsweb.com <LUNEN-LINKS- L@rootsweb.com> Date: Sunday, November 01, 1998 4:19 AM Subject: RE: info >i'm sending this info to both of you, not to the lists > LUNEN-LINKS & NOVA SCOTIA > >the contents of this message follows > > ---------------- > > >Subject: > [Moonrakers] Selling e-mail addresses buy using genealogy as a >front. > Date: > Sat, 31 Oct 1998 23:02:02 -0600 > From: > Tom Keyes <keyestl@execpc.com> > To: > Moonrakers <moonrakers@ultra.net.au> > > >Moonrakers: > >The following is from this weeks Eastman letter. > >- Genealogy Web Site Sells Your Name and E-mail Address > >It's a tough world. Lots of businesses sell their customer lists >these days. The result is that you get junk mail and marketing >phone calls from all sorts of companies trying to sell you >something you probably don't want. The newest twist is "spam >mail", unwanted e-mails that advertise all sorts of junk. Now a >well-known genealogy Web site is contributing to the spam mail >that you receive and apparently is profiting from personal >information that they obtain from you under the guise of helping >you do genealogy research. In fact, the Web site apparently is a >"front", as the main purpose seems to be gathering personal >information about you and then selling that information. > >The Family Tree House Web site at http://www.usaafter.com claims >that it is "the Association for FamilyTree Enrollment and >Registry." The home page says, "This site offers free family tree >software and links to key genealogy sites. The software is >available on-line. You can build your FamilyTree House in real >time, no downloading is required." > >They also say, "...you can create and register your own on-line >FamilyTree. And because it is on-line, you can enlist the help of >other family members by giving them your personal access code to >allow them to fill in the missing branches--it's a project the >whole family can participate in no matter where they live." On >another page the site advises, "When requesting information, >please make sure you include your name, mailing address and the >information you would like." > >After they collect all the personal information from you and your >other family members, the owners of Family Tree House apparently >package the information and sell it to other companies that send >junk mail or spam e-mails. On a different Web site, the owners of >Family Tree House offer "a file of 33,600 last-12-month >registrants of the Family Tree House, an association that offers >Web site members free software and links to genealogy sites." The >file they sell reportedly contains information about each person's >date of birth, gender, e-mail address, state and ZIP code. The Web >advertisement says that the file contains listings for 33,600 >people who have left personal information on the Family Tree House >site. > >To check for yourself, first look at http://www.usaafter.com and >then look at: >http://www.mediacentral.com/Magazines/DirectNewsline/Archive/1998100910.h >tm > >Cheers, Tom > > > >=========================================== >Have you got any GEDCOM files? >Why not send them to Mike for inclusion on our web-site. > > ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ Bridgett Smith TNGenWeb State Coordinator http://www.tngenweb.org/ ==== TNGEN Mailing List ==== Please make sure your links back to any project site located on USIT has the URL http://www.tngenweb.org/