Hi All, In 2000, I began a website for Sct-Wigtownshire lookups. Ideally, it was supposed to be a couple of pages devoted to lookups, but it has grown a good deal since then, helped by the support of many contributors and a very good web partner. http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~leighann/ During that time, I've had to think about the points that Chris brought up, so I'd like to take a stabe at answering them. 1) That's a good idea. On our lookup page, we finally ended up creating a step by step guideline for lookup requests. http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~leighann/parishes/parishlist.html 2) Nope. The spam bots find you no matter what you do. Many on the freepages list have kicked around various ideas for eluding the spam bots, but I have not seen any that has been long term effective. The best bet is to get yourself a free email address (i.e. hotmail, yahoo) reserved only for mail generated from the site. Use filters or their spam guard to get rid of any junk. Preserve your personal email address for rootsweb and other mail. 3)Good idea. Sounds like a good endeavour. Go for it:-) Leigh-Ann --- Chris O'Sullivan <familyhistory@iprimus.com.au> wrote: > Hi All > > I have just read David's posting. David, it > makes perfect sense to include this > idea/concept as a new page to an existing FOD > specfic site, (I just wasn't sure if anyone > else would support the idea), so if you would > like to undertake the task please feel free to > do so. > > I do have some thoughts though which I was > going to raise: > > 1. Lookup limits would have to be made with > specific enquiries only undertaken and 1 at a > time. > 2. Email addresses should NOT be displayed to > deter the spambots. Suggestions here would be > good. Does hiding the email addresses by > linking from a person's name deter the spambots > - not sure? > > 3. An additional piece of information I would > like to see would be the linking of any > relevant FOD family web sites - I have 2 FOD > family sites. > > > > Does anyone have further suggestions? > > > > Regards > > Chris > > > > > > > > > ==== ENG-GLOS-FOREST-DEAN Mailing List ==== > list owner can be contacted on > kinetahill@hotmail.com please state mailing > list in subject. thank you > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including > the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. > Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send 10MB messages! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail