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Subject: [OHBUTLER-L] RootsWeb Value and Support
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 07:35:47 EST


As a voluntary financial contributor to RootsWeb (and that's all other than a
grateful recipient of it's fine services) I'm posting the following to
discussion lists to which I subscribe. It's an excerpt of the weekly "news
letter" sent to contributors and is being posted by me with neither request
nor authorization of RootsWeb. I do sincerely hope each of you who read this
post will genuinely ask yourself about the value of RootsWeb to you and act
accordingly with voluntary financial support.

John Tallman
Lookout Mountain, Tennessee
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NEWS AND NOTES FROM ROOTSWEB

ROOTSWEB IN OCTOBER -- 61 million hits and 117 million e-mails!
Need we say it? RootsWeb has continued to grow. While we are more
than pleased by our growth, it is forcing us to upgrade our
servers and increase our bandwidth, which in turn severely
strains our limited financial resources. If you would like to
help RootsWeb grow, please consider becoming a RootsWeb Member or
Sponsor. Information about how to do that follows the statistics.

Here are the detailed statistics on our October 1998 operations:

o 3,264 independently-authored Web sites hosted by RootsWeb.

o 61,205,731 total Web hits, of which
- 16,107,975 were HTML pages;
- 9,252,813 were cgi-bin database searches and such; and
- 35,844,943 were graphics (GIFs, JPEGs, etc.).

o 1,223,214 file downloads from the USGenWeb Archives and the
ROOTS-L Library.

o 4,686 independently-operated mailing lists hosted by
RootsWeb.

o 117,570,146 pieces of e-mail shipped to our mailing lists.

RootsWeb is supported primarily by users like you -- your
contributions keep us alive. If you would like to become a
RootsWeb Member or Sponsor (the cost is very modest) please
visit: <http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html>;.

Support from the Internet genealogical community is crucial to
RootsWeb's operation. Contributions that we can employ to upgrade
our servers are essential for us to be able to continue bringing
more genealogical Web sites and mailing lists online.

And thanks to everyone who participates in RootsWeb. Clearly
folks are continuing to exchange a great deal of information.

* * *

ROOTSWEB DOES NOT SELL ITS MAILING LISTS.

RootsWeb received the following letter last week: "My company,
PARADIGM List Management, has developed an expertise in the
marketing of information (registered customer databases, online
subscribers, names with postal addresses, and e-mails) that is
sourced from the Web. We market this information through
traditional marketing channels for direct mail & targeted e-mail
purposes. We currently represent many high profile sites in this
capacity generating a significant source of incremental revenue
for the sites. Who can I contact at Rootsweb to discuss our
services?"

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Dr. Brian Leverich responded: "I'm one of the owners of RootsWeb,
and it is true that we have extremely clean mailing lists for
hundreds of thousands of Internet genealogists.

"It will be a cold day in Hell before we sell that information to
anyone, though. We take the privacy rights of our users
*extremely* seriously. Cheers, B."
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