Posted by list admin Glamorgan............
<snip>Over the weekend, a misguided individual decided to reveal on a number
of
rootsweb mailing lists information about FreeBMD, specifically the
address
on the servers where our scanned images of index pages were stored.
As a result of this disclosure, the FreeBMD site has been swamped by
people
trying to get their hands on the scans, including at least 2 sites that
have attempted to download every scanned image on the site.
Undoing the damage caused by this one individual has involved several
hours of work for us, with more work still to be done.
With immediate effect, access to the scanned images on the site has
been
password protected. Genuine transcribers will be able to get a password
from their syndicate co-ordinator (they cannot get it direct from me)
I'm sorry that we have had to take this action, and can only reflect
that
it is a sad day when some people cannot be satisfied with what they are
being given for free, but feel that they have some kind of right to
take
whatever they want.
Please feel free to pass this message to other mailing lists where the
disclosure was made.<end snip>
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