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From: Sharon <>
Subject: Re: [Lon] Admin-NON GEN - illicit hyperlinks in news group messages
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 13:14:12 -0500 (EST)
In-Reply-To: <001501c5ead6$a8dd8d40$6400a8c0@elmac>
Heck of a way for an upstart to start his own forum by
lifting rootsweb, and newsgroup postings, but that's
what he's doing.
Sharon
--- Lin <> wrote:
>
> With permission from Roy:
>
> I thought it important to bring this to peoples
> attention, forwarded from
> the Yorkshire List
> I tried putting some of 'London-L well used names
> into the search engine and
> it brings up lots of hits, but I havent really
> delved too far in, so know
> nothing about it
>
> Although I dont mind a few comments or questions,
> please keep it brief, and
> make the subject line Non-Gen
> Lin
> List Admin
> London
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Roy Stockdill" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2005 1:23 PM
> Subject: [YKS] Non-Yorkshire - illicit hyperlinks in
> news group messages
>
>
> > This is not to do with Yorkshire, folks, but I
> only picked up on it
> > this morning from the
> Genbrit/soc.genealogy.britain group and thought
> > it worth bringing to the attention of a wider
> audience. Maybe others
> > already knew about it, but it's new to me.
> >
> > Are listers aware that there is a website called
> Genealogy
> > Newsgroups.com - operating at
> www.genealogynewsgroups.com - that
> > appears to be lifting large numbers of messages
> from lists and
> > newsgroups and republishing them?
> >
> > I have no particular objection to this in itself,
> but what does
> > concern me is that they are underlining specific
> words and phrases in
> > people's messages and inserting hyperlinks to
> other websites - in
> > other words, they are hijacking the messages and
> using them as
> > advertising vehicles, blatantly without the
> posters' permission. A
> > number of my messages appear to have been treated
> in this way and I
> > object most strongly to it, since it may give the
> impression that I
> > am actually inserting the links myself and
> allowing my original
> > material to be used for advertising purposes,
> which is strictly not
> > the case.
> >
> > I regard this as unethical and also a flagrant
> breach of copyright.
> > But what can we do about it? I do not as yet know
> who is behind this
> > website.
> >
> > There are at the moment only 5 messages via
> Yorksgen there, but no
> > doubt others will appear. One of the phrases in my
> own messages that
> > has been so treated is "Family History" in my
> Newbies' Guide to, etc.
> > This has been given a hyperlink to Ancestry.com,
> which particularly
> > annoys me!!!
> >
> > Roy Stockdill
> > Web page of the Guild of One-Name Studies:-
> www.one-name.org
> > Newbies' Guide to Genealogy & Family History:-
> > www.genuki.org.uk/gs/Newbie.html
> >
> > "Relations are simply a tedious pack of people,
> who haven't got the
> > remotest
> > knowledge of how to live, nor the remotest
> instinct about when to die."
> >
> > Oscar Wilde
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