Sandy,
I honestly don't know what to say. You think it was a
serious problem to move content offline for 2 days. I
thought it was best. The home page remained and I said it
would be back. I simply wanted to take proper measures to
protect the submissions of individuals. It was not a
personal matter at all. Just a difference of personal
opinion and we all have one.
Nola
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sandy" <teylu(a)earthlink.net>
To: <ncgenweb-discuss(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2007 9:11 PM
Subject: Re: [NCGENWEB-DISCUSS] Complaints from researchers
On Aug 30, 2007, at 8:55 PM, Nola Duffy wrote:
> and no,
> unless they come up with anther scheme, I doubt I will
> find
> a need to take my site down again for revision but who
> knows
> what the future will bring.
And that is the point, Nola.
No one knows what the future will bring - except that if
the unknown
future means our county sites are going to go offline in
the face of
every new mechanism for capturing the data on them, then
we might as
well fold up the tents of the NCGenWeb Project right now.
As has been said by others, the whole point of the project
is to put
data online for everybody. Period.
I don't like what was done, either, but I'm no more
surprised by it
than I will be the day they announce they're closing down
some of
their "brands," perhaps even Rootsweb.
I thought you were already using the robot spider
prevention thingy -
wasn't that what you were so upset about Daryl not
honoring with his
search engine? It would appear that Ancestry didn't honor
it either.
But it sounds as if you're saying that you will be taking
down the
county sites you host in the face of these sorts of
problems. If
that's the case, and perhaps you are not alone, then I
believe it
signals a major problem for the project.
-Sandy
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