Keep it at Tripod also, because I can't get Geocities. Marilynn ---------- > From: Cassie Elam <celam@pdq.net> > To: ELAM-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [ELAM-ROOTS-L] Elam Family Research Page > Date: Wednesday, July 21, 1999 6:22 PM > > Hello all -- > > As you all know I threw a major temper tantrum when Geocities and Yahoo > merged and came out with that hideous clause in their Terms of Service > contract that says they can do anything with the information contained > on any site hosted by them. It turns out that after I went to all that > trouble to move everything over to Tripod, with whom I had placed the > "photographs" section of my page a year or two ago, I went in and looked > at their Terms of Service and they have changed it to use the EXACT SAME > language as GeoCities/Yahoo! I was so angry that I decided to check out > Xoom.com and found that they also use the very same clause. So, it > looks like short of paying someone to host the site (which I have looked > into and is prohibitively expensive), there's really no alternative but > to pick my favorite devil. I'm going to keep the page at both sites, > but in the future I may change the links on the main page at Tripod to > point to the GeoCities site just because the GeoCities File Manager is > so much more user-friendly than that of Tripod. > > Now that I've probably hopelessly confused you, just remember that you > can get to the site by going to either address: > > http://www.geocities.com/heartland/prairie/6831 or > http://members.tripod.com/cellinismom/index.html > > Cassie