Mina Bickerstaff, 4328 Waits Ave Fort Worth TX 76133-1139 MInaMB@juno.com MinaMB@aol.com for attached files --------- Begin forwarded message ---------- From: Dayna Cohen McMullen <mcmullen@BIGFOOT.COM> To: DEEP-SOUTH-ROOTS-L@LISTSERV.INDIANA.EDU Subject: [D-S] BEWARE--Your data could be taken next..(long) Date: Sat, 19 Jul 1997 19:24:52 -0500 Message-ID: <1.5.4.32.19970720002452.00754afc@pop.flash.net> 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 Here is a message off his guestbook: "For those of you who are interested, here is the contact information for the Internet administrator of the Salt Lake City Community College (where Mr. Roller's site is located): Whois slcc.edu [rs.internic.net.] Salt Lake City Community College (SLCC-DOM) P.O. Box 30808 Salt Lake City, UT 84130 Domain Name: SLCC.EDU Administrative Contact: Hawkin, Marvin (MH320) u_hawkins@VAXA.SLCC.EDU (801) 967-4128 Technical Contact, Zone Contact: Zoumadakis, Bill (BZ22) zoom@cc.utah.edu (801) 967-4128 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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ----------------------------------------------- To contact the list owner, use stephenL@indiana.edu For information on available lists, other list options, and other generally useful information, visit http://copper.ucs.indiana.edu/~stephenl/genealog.htm --------- End forwarded message ----------