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From: "Jim Rickenbacker\(3\)" <>
Subject: Re: [ROOTSWEB-HELP] URLs
Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 10:00:47 -0500
References: <d3a.221ebf12.351fa328@aol.com>


A redirect page is usually considered to be one that uses a header line such
as:
<meta http-equiv="REFRESH" content="0;url=[the new page URL]"> to
automatically redirect a browser to a new URL. Hosting an index page on
RootsWeb whose links point elsewhere would seem to be OK per RootsWeb's Web
Space Agreement.
http://accounts.rootsweb.com/index.cgi?op=show&page=geoagree.htm

Jim Rickenbacker

----- Original Message -----
From: <>
To: <>
Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2008 8:50 AM
Subject: Re: [ROOTSWEB-HELP] URLs


> Linda-
>
> This would seem to be a violation of RootsWeb's rules--because you would
> merely be providing a redirect to a site OFF RootsWeb where your page
> content is
> stored. Eventually, this will be caught and the redirects deleted by
> RootsWeb.
>
> To answer Tim's question, RootsWeb would allow some time in case the
> account
> holder wishes to return or changes their minds but, in time--maybe a few
> weeks or months--the URLs would be available to anyone who wishes to
> create a
> county, state, etc. website at RootsWeb either as a private site or one
> connected to a different project. From what I've seen thus far, there are
> people
> waiting to grab those URLs and put them to good use.
>
> Joan
> --------------------
>
> I put up an index page - identical to what was there - but the
> links go to the new site.
>
> Linda Haas Davenport
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tim Stowell" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2008 6:36 AM
> Subject: [ROOTSWEB-HELP] URLs
>
>
> |I wasn't sure what to put for a subject line so -
> |
> | my question is what happens to the URLs for USGenWeb and/or
> other
> | folks who leave Rootsweb?
> |
> | Do those URLs become available for someone else to adopt who
> may /
> | may not be associated with USGenWeb?
> |
> | Tim Stowell
> |
>
>
>
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