This was posted on the Roots-L list by "Will Pratt" <prattw@pioneer.nevada.edu>. Obviously nothing further is needed to be said until the grand announcement later in the year. The following is a summary of information from various sources. The site in question was not intended for public access, but is a beta test site, to test the site structure with moderate traffic, as had previously been announced. It is open only to selected beta testers who have been given passwords. Somehow, a way in was left unprotected, discovered, and published. The result was a flood of accesses, which the low capacity server being used for the test wasn't designed to handle. The access loophole was finally protected, but as I understand it, the server went down. I suspect it'll be more carefully protected when it goes up again. After a beta test period, which will end 28 March, the site will be shut down and its performance evaluated. After any necessary changes have been made, it will be put up again, on a much more robust server, probably sometime this summer. The final product will be open without passwords, to anyone. To the person who said that it was their last hope to find information on a relative: everything that will be on the site is already available at any Family History Center, although not always as conveniently. (E.g., the only way presently to make an author searchof the FHLC is on the microfiche version.) -- Kathryn Rhinehart Bassett (Pasadena CA) kathryn.bassett@switchboard.net "Genealogy is my bag" "GH is my soap" http://pw2.netcom.com/~kathrynb/kathryn.htm ICQ World-Wide-Pager address http://wwp.mirabilis.com/17663458 -- Kathryn Rhinehart Bassett (Pasadena CA) kathryn.bassett@switchboard.net "Genealogy is my bag" "GH is my soap" http://pw2.netcom.com/~kathrynb/kathryn.htm ICQ World-Wide-Pager address http://wwp.mirabilis.com/17663458