Just passing this along as requested.
Karen
-----Original Message-----
From: Terry Ross [SMTP:str900@your-net.com]
Sent: March 25, 2001 7:46 AM
To: OHWARREN-L(a)rootsweb.com
Subject: Important about GenForum
Ethics
Hi everyone. this came as a message from the listowner for the
Rockingham, New Hamspshire list that I belong to. I thought everyone ought to see
what is going on. Mr. Marston has asked that we send this along to the lists we
belong to so I am doing so. Please read the whole message to see what is
going on. I think at the very least we ought to take it as a warning
and a reminder that not all we find is correct information and just use it as
a tool to look further.
Lee Neilsen in Eastern Utah
mailto:lloydi@ubtanet.com">lloydi@ubtanet.com</A>
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Dick Marston wrote:
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.
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