Paula, I certainly didn’t think that your comments were '”offensive” in any way. Rather my comments were prompted by the fact that many people do not regard publishing on the web as ‘publishing’. That is to say that they consider anything on a website as to be freely available to them, for them to copy and use as they wish, without regard to copyright – see Sybil’s post earlier today.
I do not suggest for one minute that you come into this category, I simply wanted to emphasise the web publishing has the same status, particularly legal status, as anything published on paper, (and it is just as hard, if not harder to write). Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ From: Paula Ryburn Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2012 7:36 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] What to do with the "I think" and "maybe" individuals? Ron, I surely didn't mean to offend anyone. I was just thinking of the technical step of 'publishing' to the web--not thinking more broadly. I don't put my information on the internet, so I'm not really "there" yet. --Paula -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ron Ferguson <ronfergy....@tiscali.co.uk> To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Sent: Sat, April 21, 2012 4:51:38 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] What to do with the "I think" and "maybe" individuals? Paula, Putting something out on the web *is* publishing, it is likely to be read by more people than those who would read a book on the same subject as the website, and you are displaying to the world at large how competent, or otherwise, you are. Which is why those of us who do publish on the web take extreme care over the presentation of the site as a whole and, in particular, the accuracy of the information which we present. Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ From: Paula Ryburn Sent: Saturday, April 21, 2012 10:02 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] What to do with the "I think" and "maybe" individuals? Ah! Not really "publishing" but putting out on the internet. Gotcha. --Paula Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
