THIS RESPONSE IN IN ANSWER TO: YAHOO/GEOCITIES TAKEOVER OF YOUR SITES In a message dated 6/30/99 6:29:58 AM Central Daylight Time, TRIER-ROOTS-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: << X-Message: #3 Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 23:59:46 -0600 From: "W. David Samuelsen" <dsam@wasatch.com> To: TRIER-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <3779B252.351DE03A@wasatch.com> Subject: [TRIER-ROOTS-L] Yahoo/Geocities Takeover of YOUR sites Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/20472.html http://www.internetnews.com/wd-news/article/0,1087,10_147231,00.html this was posted TODAY, July 29, 1999 There are many genealogy sites at Yahoo/Geocities If you have your site there, Yahoo/Geocities stole your site and declared them their own. Including your copyrights and refusal to pay royalties to you. Feel free to circulate this message to other lists not receiving this alert. W. David Samuelsen >> Egad! You mean to tell us that anyone who has their genealogical data on Yahoo/Geocities will not own their family history anymore? Which reminds me...in the past few days, most hits I get on names from Family Tree Maker site searches (which includes all of the Internet) gives me "forbidden to enter" messages.....is this because of something like this? Or is it beause people are posting their data and don't realize the site they have chosen (such as one Family.com type of place I found) automatically blocks others from looking at the very data they've posted in an effort to make connections? Regards, Melissa (mlwisc@aol.com)