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From: Eileen Irwin <>
Subject: Re: [Ethics] Ethics
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 16:21:28 -0700
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Lou,

Did you miss this part of the statement: "It would appear....." In this
respect callous means hardened in feeling, insensible; and unfeeling.
The only "ethic" about which rootsweb is concerned with is a
commercial/business interest, not a moral ethic.

I don't believe that one can have a frank and honest discussion with
rootsweb. Unlike you and me, RootsWeb is an organization that sets a
policy, it does not invite frank and honest discussion. To find a
complaint address, one must search through page after page on the web
site. AAMOF, the only complaint address I was able to find was in
references to Mail list owners and the policy there is that the list
belongs to the owner and rootsweb is hesitant to interfere.

Eileen


"L. R. Mills" wrote:
>
> > It would appear that rootsweb is very callous about this and lacks a
> > genealogy ethic.
> >
> This statement disturbs me. While we may disagree with Rootsweb's
> position or the various agencies publishing "public domain"
> information on the 'Net, they are entitled to their point of view. To start
> calling an entity "callous" or to accuse them of lacking a genealogy
> ethic because you disagree with them, is to me, ironically, unethical.
>
> I would hope that if my set of values differs from yours, we could have
> a frank and honest discussion without devolving into name-calling or
> character assassination.
>
> Lou

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