Some of you are getting two copies, if you're in the current fian and haven't signed up for FIANNA-L you only have one copy and that should clue you that you're missing some good stuff! :) Now to the business: Well, I guess we knew it would happen someday! In spite of the warnings in every notice about the private area being PRIVATE and to not post anything about it on the web - for which reason also we do NOT have archives for this mailing list - someone has kindly shared one of the private URL's with another person, who probably shared it with a few more... there's been a big jump in some of the counters in the past 24 hours and the celtic toes page URL showed up in a newsgroup message today. I have changed the "return to" link at the bottom of that page to go to the general front page and taken all the other private pages down for now. It was in the private area for copyright reasons and will be taken down in a couple of days (waiting so it doesn't cause questions for suddenly not being there...) What do we want to do? Move the private pages to another, unadvertised, site? If it's in geocities I won't be willing to pay for geoplus for it, the way I do for the site now to avoid advertisements... [and also because we're well over 6 MEGS !! :) and I'm working on a page for every county, which will take up up another meg or two... !! As well as your projects which are coming due, fian :) ] Move the private pages into a separate directory and each swear in blood not to reveal any URL that includes that directory name? Might work, because then no one would accidentally share one, you'd see the word "private" right there in the URL.... Scrap the pages which have profiles, etc and personally revealing stuff? And any page I'm not SURE about the copyright status on? [Which is most of the jokes on the Pub/teashop pages which almost no one visited anyway... and the stuff about arms belonging to an individual, not a family..] and not have a private area at all? Talk about it, email about it and let's make a decision here, folks. :) Peace, anne PS. And I just wrote Brian Levrich(sp?) about getting space on rootsweb.com!!! for our public pages :) It will probably be a while before we hear... PAX. Anne Boyes boyes@gardener.com http://www.geocities.com/~hoseahouse/genealogy/