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From: David Faux <>
Subject: [DNA] Genebase and the Vanishing Blog
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 16:05:11 -0800 (PST)


Dennis wrote: Have you tried archive?
http://www.archive.org/index.php
Enter the 'old' URL in the 'waybackmachine' box and click 'Take me Back'

Let us know how you go

Dennis W
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Yes, it takes a while to download but the comments are all there:-
http://tinyurl.com/2qytop
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Wow, you were sure right about the download time Dennis!. Still, using this approach revealed only 20 of the 137 comments - in other words those to June 2007.

I do have all 137 right to Jan 2008, which I am sure will please the folks at Genebase. Still, these customers have very specific complaints and deserve to be heard and not to have their words erased as if they were chalk on a chalkboard.

It seems to me that it may be more than a coincidence that the original blog which has been wiped clean of these potentially damaging comments is now sponsored by "The DNA Ancestry Project" (i.e., Genebase). I can only speculate as to what happened to initiate a clean sweep and removal of the blog topic from the "Genetics and Health" website.

Perhaps some of those who did in fact make an entry (some made multiple entries) would like to comment about what might be going on - some are individuals who make postings to the Genealogy-DNA Rootsweb List.

When I was involved with EA I had some very definite opinions about the business ethics of some of our competitors - doing things that while not technically illegal, but decidedly underhanded. Try typing "Ethnoancestry" in a google search and see what comes up first.

David K. Faux.

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