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    1. [WHITNEY-L] Warning about "for profit" use of free materials
    2. Dear WRG: The warning and letter included below was published by Dick Marston, the list administrator of the NH Rockingham County maillist. It is, of course, not a new complaint, but perhaps a new perpetrator of this indignity. Caveat Emptor! Allan E. Green ************************************* Listers: I have naively included a link to GenForum for those wishing to post and respond to Rockingham and Marston surname queries. Furthermore, I have innocently posted several responses on those forums. Today, I have amended the link on Rockingham's Queries Index Page to read as follows: **If you want still another place to search and post, try the Rockingham county message board on [ genforum.genealogy.com/nh/rockingham/ ] WARNING!! Any information which you share on GenForum's message boards may be copied by Genealogy.com [/FamilyTreeMaker.com] and sold by them for profit either as data included on a monthly/annual subscription or as a CD for purchase. Much of this information is totally unreliable. Caveat emptor [Buyer beware]. In order to see what, if any, information Genealogy.com has acquired from your voluntary contributions, you will first need to subscribe to their service available to paying members only.** I am SO angry I could spit!! Until I started checking up on this fiasco about my father's pedigree, I had NO clue that Genealogy.com was doing this. I want to declare WAR! I can't get through to their leaders, but I sure would like to get through to their potential customers and unwitting voluntary contributors. Please feel free to copy and paste [or send] this warning wherever, or to whomever, you think might do the most good. You may post it as your own message or as a quote from me, whichever you prefer. Your help will be greatly appreciated. -- Dick Marston, Rockingham County, NH, GenWeb Project County Coordinator, [ http://www.geocities.com/rockingham_nh/ ]; Administrator: MARSTON, NHMERRIM, and NHROCKIN Mail Lists.

    03/18/2001 06:31:49