Richard Heli wrote:
At 08:24 PM 11/30/98 -0700, Brigitte Gastel Lloyd wrote:
It is with mixed emotions that Brigitte and I make the following announcement:
As of December 21, 1998 our GENEALOGY.COM server will go permanently offline and the domain name will be transferred to Broderbund Software,
Congratulations -- I imagine you garnered a rather healthy profit on the sale of your domain and information! Might those who volunteered so many hundreds of hours to the project know what the sale price was?
None of the data was sold. We have only sold the domain name. The price and terms of the deal were made confidential.
Inc., who will be using it for their own purposes. Furthermore, all external user accounts on the GENEALOGY.COM server have already been deactivated in preparation for the move. The current contents of GENEALOGY.COM will remain frozen as they are today.
I am not sure what "frozen" means in this context? Will the pages be thus eliminated? transferred to the Broderbund server? transferred to your proposed worldroots.com server? Or yet something else?
A copy of the entire contents of the genealogy.com server exists on Rainer's genealogy.net machine. His machine was the mirror of our machine. Now, it's the master site. The data on our server will remain accessable until December 21st at which time the system will go offline and the data will cease to be served by the genealogy.com domain name. Broderbund will go on-line at the same time, with their own content.
During the past 3 and 1/2 years, Brigitte and I have made a number of friends and acquaintences through the connection of our web site. We are confident that those who are truly our friends will continue to remain so despite this sudden and abrupt change of course.
It does seem a bit abrupt. I am surprised that you do not seem to have sought the advice of the groups before making such a move?
Rick Heli
Brigitte and I made the decision for personal reasons. Since the name was our property, we felt that no outside consultations were necessary. Please bear in mind that we haven't sold anything other than the name. The other thing is that we have decided not to continue our sponsorship as the master site for the German web pages. Our choice to discontinue sponsorship was in part mitigated by the endless discussions over advertising, costs, ownership, english vs. german language, etc.. that took place within the group. We found that it would be much simpler for us to have complete control over a site of our own, and hence the site worldroots.com was conceived. sincerely, -fred -- Brigitte Gastel Lloyd email: brigitte@qrz.com http://www.worldroots.com/brigitte ---------------------------------------------------- Wer über gewisse Dinge nicht den Verstand verliert, hat keinen zu verlieren. (G.E. Lessing)