>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. > >