My 2cents--I think the suckers are those that would spend $50 for this. I think an information campaign to as many genealogy lists/sites as possible to educate the most likely targets, genealogy newbies, would be our best course of action. If the guy can't make any money, maybe he'll give up and leave. Look at where Halbert's made their money, people like my inlaws who didn't know any better. Robin Hoff Kaspar Volunteer host, Grant County, Wisconsin WIGenweb http://www.rootsweb.com/~wigrant -----Original Message----- From: Tim Stowell [mailto:tstowell@chattanooga.net] Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2000 11:58 PM To: WIGEN-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [WIGEN-L] Familydiscovery.com >Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 08:49:19 -0700 >X-From_: mloughli@centurytel.com Tue Sep 19 08:49:19 2000 >Old-Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 10:49:06 -0700 >From: marie loughlin <mloughli@centurytel.com> >X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD NSCPCD47 (Win98; I) >X-Accept-Language: en >To: WIGEN <WIGEN-L@rootsweb.com> >X-Diagnostic: Not on the accept list >Subject: {not a subscriber} Familydiscovery.com >X-Envelope-To: WIGEN-L > >Hello Everyone, > >It looks like that this man is systematically gathering emails and >information from all of the county and statewide information data bases >of the internet including the UNGENWEB, and Ancestry/Rootsweb sources. >We as a group are temporary guardians of these sites and are only >individual voices. It would seem to me that the issue of this site >should be brought to the attention to UNGENWEB, Ancestry/Rootsweb >lawyers for litigation. We as a group can offer our support in this >matter but it will be ultimately their call as to the process of >protecting THEIR pages from being pirated. I hope that this man can be >stopped or this will set an awful precedence on the internet. I visited >the home page of his site, and clicked on the subscribe page only to >find the site address is "www.2rich.com". The arrogance of this person >is only rivaled by the words of P. T. Barnum " A sucker is born every >minute". In the end, if this man is using the "disclaimers" on every >page to linking pages, not claiming that the information is his, might >be within his rights. Our protests might be moot. We can only hope that >this can be dealt with and resolved on the national level. > >Best to all and have a good day >Marie K. Loughlin - CC Polk Co. > > ==== WIGEN Mailing List ==== Visit the Douglas County WIGenWeb Project Pages http://www.rootsweb.com/~widougla/