At 11:51 AM -0800 1/12/00, Sandy wrote: A bunch of stuff summed up in the line: > >I believe it is VERY misleading to allow Rootsweb to display the >USGenWeb logo and to claim it hosts THE USGenWeb Project. > Sandy, I agree that the logo and link as currently captioned are misleading. In fact, as far as USGenWeb goes, I think "sponsored by" is a better term than "hosted by". As you point out, many web presence providers host USGenWeb pages. (Mine is primarily on Best Internet, and I pay $50 a month for it.) But relatively few companies give unlimited free space with no ads required to USGenWeb pages, while charging the public at large for no-banner-ad pages. The gift of free no-ads web space is significant enough that I would think any company or organization providing such would qualify under the usual meaning of "sponsor." Where the term "sponsor" breaks down is that most of the *other* projects on that line are resources managed directly by Rootsweb staff. Sort of like saying that Walt Disney "sponsors" the Magic Kingdom. As a label for every icon on that row EXCEPT USGenWeb, "Hosted by" is more accurate than "Sponsored by". But with the current wording, it certainly sounds like every project on that row is fully housed on Rootsweb. To avoid misleadingly appearing to claim to host the entire USGenWeb Project, I think the cluster pages should either replace the link labelled simply "USGenWeb" with one labelled either USGenWeb Archives or USGenWeb National pages (both of which ARE fully housed on Rootsweb), or else the header should be changed to "Major Projects Hosted or Partially Hosted by RootsWeb." (Note that this isn't mainly an icon issue. It would be just as misleading if you were in non-graphic mode and saw only the text.) Teri Pettit pettit@adobe.com USGenWeb CC Representative, Southeast-Mid Atlantic Region http://www.best.com/~tpettit/rowan/