Greetings,
Earlier, Leah copied this list on a message that had two responses from Nola
Duffy who is not currently subbed to the list.
Due to Leah's legitimate concerns, Nola's responses are below.
Regards,
Paul
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Leah,
If anyone has accidentally placed the Stanly County page online, I should be
the one to blame since I am the one with the pwd. I just checked and
apparently someone else saw your message and de-linked the GenWeb page until
I can get it fixed. I also have material on sites that I that I do not
appreciate having others copy as their own so I am in complete sympathy and
agreement with you. The only material that I would use would be that which
others may have contributed to GenWeb which I am sure you would not take as
your own. I checked the page on Wednesday evening and the only thing there
was the link to YOUR NEW PAGE which you had placed there. I did not remove
it even though you were using a GenWeb link to direct people to your private
page simply because I wanted you feel better about your departure and I
certainly did not wish to fuel your irritation by removing your private link
until I had the new page ready to go online. Derick has not touched the page
so I truly do not know how it happened. Is it possible that you left copies
of your material on the GenWeb site?
Please, please, do not be hostile. If you really want to be hurtful with
another grievance, it is your nickel and you can certainly spend it anyway
you please but a simple request would have been more than enough to remove
any offending material immediately and it would have been removed anyway
when I updated the page. I also intended to write to you to let you know
when I would be removing the page you left so that you privately might
e-mail others with your new link if you wished. We all work too hard at this
to make it an unpleasant experience and it is so counter-productive. There
is not and has not been any intention of claiming any of your copyrighted
material. I have ordered microfilm to transcribe to for the new page and
will be adding my own new original material. The reason I did not update
the page yesterday was because I was at the library transcribing census
records and marriage bonds.
As for your private page, I would be more than happy to make a link. You
have done a lot of work and it is and will continue to be a great resource.
Nola
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Leah,
I apologize once again. I have checked my logs and it looks like I did
move some of the material on Dec. 9 from the old GenWeb site.
If you will please give me a list of what you claim as your copyrighted
material vs what others have contributed to the GenWeb page, I will make
absolutely certain the pages are deleted IMMEDIATELY and get the home page
online. For example, the queries would seem to be those left by the GenWeb
visitors. There are also other records that appear to have been donated to
GenWeb that are not your personal material. However, I will delete even the
GenWeb queries and do a new query page if you wish to claim a copyright to
other's messages, postings, etc. Although you stored the material on your
private ISP, it would seem to me that when people contributed the material
to the GenWeb site, you would not like to claim it.
As I said, I looked at the page on Wednesday and at that time the only index
page was the link to your NEW page which I intentionally left to allow
visitors to find you easily. I still do not know how I managed to get your
index online unless you perhaps removed the page you left linking to your
new page.
I am responding only because I want the proper person blamed and fear that
if there is any guilt, it must be mine. I hate to see the wrong person
blamed for my goofs. Now off to get the egg off my face. You may send me
the list of what you claim a copyright to privately. If you wish to claim
the query pages as well as the other contributions to GenWeb, I will simply
post a request on the page asking the contributors to re-submit to the
GenWeb page.
Nola
nduffy(a)patch.net