Always been the case, that is how one can find email address of someone who posted... One often sees "Does anyone have 'whoever's' email address?" one just has to do a Search in Archives and find one of their post and their email address. DH FERMANAGH-GOLD Archive shows email addresses and Happy Birthday Vi Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2016 16:09:37 +0000 (UTC) References: <[email protected]> In-Reply-To: <[email protected]> Hi Everyone, I have noticed that our email addresses are available on our archive for any spammer to gather up! Before the site went down they were all shown in shaded characters that could not easily be picked up by scammers. I wonder why Ancestry has changed this, or whether it is just an error on their part?Val McPS Happy Birthday Vi --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus