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