Yet another reason to clearly mark all your pages. At the top I think.
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 13:30:15 -0700
From: Joy Fisher <jfisher(a)ucla.edu>
Subject: [STATE-COORD-L] Possible Genealogy SCAM
To: STATE-COORD-L(a)rootsweb.com
Hi Everyone:
About 2 weeeks ago we received a complaint from an Archives submitter that
her materials were found on a genealogy subscription service:
www.familydiscovery.com
The submitter was able to do a little digging and found that they were
linking to her files housed on her server, but shrink-wrapped inside a
frame so it appears to be THEIR work. About 10 days ago, to investigate
this, I signed up with familydiscovery. To date, I have not received a user
id or password to get inside. The registered owners of the web site gave
bogus telephone numbers in their registration. One number goes to a
recorded message line; the other to a carpet company. Some of the e-mail
addys on their web site bounce.
Standing on the outside and looking through the window, it appears that
several folks' web sites have been prize-mined:
http://www.familydiscovery.com/whatsnew.htm
The Storey Co., IA and the Washington Co., PA stuff seem to come from
USGenWeb sites. Some of the other IA and NC stuff seems to come from
non-USGW sites. None of the materials seem to be housed at either rootsweb
or usgennet.
I would suggest we all add the Java applet to bust out of the
shrink-wrapping:
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
<!-- Hide script from old browsers
if (top.location !=self.location) {
top.location = self.location
}
// End hiding script from old browsers -->
</SCRIPT>
This needs to be inserted between <HTML> and <TITLE> on every web page.
If you have text files on your web site, you will need to add a little
shrink wrapping of your own:
Create a blank web page -- use the tags <PRE> </PRE> --- and paste
your text file in between the <PRE> and the </PRE> -- and be sure to add
the Java applet.
If anyone out there is or has been a member of familydiscovery -- or has
been ripped off by them, I would like to hear from you.
Permission is granted to forward this message.
___________________________________________
Elaine Johnson mailto:elaine@ida.net
IDGenWeb Coordinator
http://www.rootsweb.com/~idgenweb/
Mirror site at
http://www.rootsquest.com/~idaho/index.htm