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From: Barry Ruck <>
Subject: Re: **SPAM** NEW British-Genealogy.com BRITISH MAILING LISTS AND WEB SITE
Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2003 22:47:17 +0000
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On Sat, 15 Mar 2003, D.J. <> sharpened a
new quill and wrote ...
>
>I don't believe we need yet another general-purpose website. Existing
>Rootsweb mailing lists serve a very useful purpose and there is no need for
>individual county lists which have basically taken the names of Rootsweb
>lists but stuck 'british.genealogy.com' on the end. People prefer to have a
>choice and the opportunity to be part of a more localised list.
>These new lists forbid the 'advertising' of lookups from subscribers. Sounds
>a bit like Rod's worried that someone might just pass on some information
>from one of his CDs instead of buying it to obtain one tiny bit of info.
>JDJ
>
>
Actually, it states .....
Advertising to do lookups
It is not permitted to advertise on a mailing list offering to do
lookups. (Either paid for or free). This rule will be strictly enforced
by the List Administrator.
For the avoidance of doubt, such messages include those such as "I have
this new book (or fiche or CD) and I am happy to do lookups for anyone".
Such messages undermine the viability of products produced by family
history societies and other organisations.
However, it is allowed and encouraged (subject to the copyright of the
author and licence of the product publisher) to help others on the
mailing lists with their specific family history problems and queries by
using or quoting a limited amount of material from published sources;
and in such cases, you should always refer to the source, its author,
the publisher and the product.
Now as I read this, they are happy ( indeed encourage ) look ups, but
request that you do not advertise such. So, rather than someone
contacting ( for example ) me, it is perfectly OK for me to forward the
information to them as the result of a specific enquiry.
Suffice to say that I do *not* use the sig file below when posting to
these lists.
--
Regards,
Barry Ruck. Harlow, Essex. U.K.
Ruck,(Glos. & Lincs) Gostelow,Goddard & Eley (Lincs)
1881 Census, 1851 Devon/Norfolk/Warwick Census & British Vital Records Lookups
1851 2% sample and Gloucestershire Census lookups
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