Hi Sandy: Although I certainly cannot speak for STAFF and there may be other reasons, I suspect that STAFF removed it due to findagrave having a store on their site... The site appears managed mostly by an individual, not a non-profit organization, thus making it "commercial." This is an explanation/detail that should be passed to the poster, so they know for future and do not waste their volunteer hours posting things that will be removed. You might offer to the poster they resubmit the same post, without the .com link. Copy and paste their verbiage and send it to them to make it easier, in the event they no longer have it on hand. However, as you are the admin and did not delete the post, STAFF did. I would return it to the recycle bin. We are not to restore posts. It would be a rare instance that restoration would be appropriate -- and ONLY if we personally had removed them and KNOW exactly why... and perhaps had made an error in doing so. Cheers, Lauren On 10/10/06, Treepig <Treepig@cox.net> wrote: > A post to the PEED board was deleted and the poster emailed me (the > admin) asking why on earth I removed his post from the board. I replied > that I had no memory of deleting it nor should I, as it is a fine > message and I do not have a heavy hand with my boards' delete option. I > have since restored his post to the board: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=message&r=rw&p=surnames.peed&m=120 > > After having read it several times, the only reason I can assume it was > automatically deleted was because of the mention of "findagrave" in the > URL. I am an active contributor to Findagrave.com/ and I once--but no > longer--shared links from that site to various surname boards, until I > noticed they were ending up in the Recycle Bin (on my own boards) or > disappeared from other boards. I ventured a guess it was due to the > potential commercial nature of Findagrave (although still a free site > dependent upon volunteer submissions). > > Yet when I do a global board search for "findagrave" I get thousands of > hits. That blows my old theory as to why my own posts were deleted. > Would someone please tell me why the above PEED post might have been > deleted? Thank you. > > Scratching my head, > Sandy > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BOARDS-ADMINS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >