Folks, To address the concerns some of you sent us regarding being spammed by the purveyors of Family Base:
1. The JewishGen list of subscribers is available to no one! We neither sell, nor allow anyone but our own administrators who have a "need to know" access to this list.
2. Because JewishGen is mirrored to the newsgroup soc.genealogy.jewish which is accessible to the world, when you post a message your email address becomes available to any company willing to invest in the software to capture email address >from a particular newsgroup.
This is one of the primary reasons we are interested in raising enough funds to enable us to operate a private newsgroup on our Lyris listserver. Then and only then will names and email addresses be protected >from people who want to sell you programs and other genealogically related materials.
