I post an announcement that many e-mail addresses are no longer valid and I
have no information and that the queries are for archival purposes to help
researchers. I request if anyone has updated information to contact me
privately via my posted e-mail address. Over the past 10 years I have
gotten new valid e-mail addresses for about half the queries and updated or
new queries from site visitors. So they do have some value and some of the
old queries are quite detailed . I personally have benefitted from them in
my research. Pretty much, I'd say it is a judgement call on the CC's part
as I know of no national standard regarding the old queries and none of the
states I am involved with have rules regarding this subject..
Laverne Tornow
On Sat, Jul 9, 2016 at 8:41 PM, Timothy Stowell via <
usgenweb-discuss(a)rootsweb.com> wrote:
Working on an old site, it shows 215 broken links of which a vast
majority
are from email addresses where the return says 'no such host'. I realize
many are from ISPs that went belly up or were absorbed by another entity.
Thus the question - does the Project, states or counties or you have any
rule on how long one retains queries on-line? Do you just comment out the
email address, note it as dead but leave the query or dispose of them after
so many months or years?
I have queries back to 1996 on some sites.
Tim S.
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