Yw`vbqhqqtge Sent on the Sprint® Now Network from my BlackBerry® -----Original Message----- From: freepages-help-request@rootsweb.com Sender: freepages-help-bounces@rootsweb.com Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 13:34:24 To: <freepages-help@rootsweb.com> Reply-To: freepages-help@rootsweb.com Subject: FREEPAGES-HELP Digest, Vol 6, Issue 40 When replying to a digest message, quote only the specific message to which you are replying, removing the rest of the digest from your reply. Remember to change the subject of your reply so that it coincides with the message subject to which you are replying. ***FREEPAGES HELP & FAQ*** http://helpdesk.rootsweb.com/FAQ/fpindex.html Today's Topics: 1. websites don't seem to be selling anything but are just a jumble of text.. (Ron Yates) 2. Re: (no subject) (Pat Asher) 3. Re: (no subject) (Ian Singer) 4. Re: (no subject) (Pat Geary) 5. Re: (no subject) (J.A. Florian) 6. Re: (no subject) (Barry Carlson) 7. Re: (no subject) (Wendy Howard) 8. Re: (no subject) (Lorrie Laskey) 9. Re: (no subject) (Pat Asher) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 13:44:05 -0500 From: Ron Yates <ron@yatesville.net> Subject: [FreeHelp] websites don't seem to be selling anything but are just a jumble of text.. To: <freepages-help@rootsweb.com> Message-ID: <46A7952A88F046B7858B22F355EB8916@Delldt> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" They are likely not in the business to be selling but rather luring you into clicking onto their links. Doing so serves a purpose for them either for rankings or worse, searching for targets for malware and viruses. It's good to remember there is usually a motive for everything you find on the Internet, even if it looks to be a mistake. This is my two cents. Ron Yates http://alturl.com/3aada -----Original Message----- From: freepages-help-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:freepages-help-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Charles Dobie Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2011 1:25 PM To: freepages-help@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [FreeHelp] Crawl Errors -- links used by / in Link farms I just noticed a similar thing yesterday when I googled "William Lovell Dobie" (with the quotes) to see if my father's name appears in Google Books. I was returned four pages of "hits" but all of them are phony except for the first four links on the first page. Most of these websites don't seem to be selling anything but are just a jumble of text, links and photos which are meaningless. They seem to have grabbed stuff from hundreds of real websites and mashed them all together. Chas. Dobie ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 14:14:44 -0500 From: Pat Asher <pjroots@att.net> Subject: Re: [FreeHelp] (no subject) To: Pam Orcutt <pamelaorcutt@ymail.com> Cc: Freepages-Help-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <672519.15709.qm@smtp104.sbc.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed At 01:45 PM 2/16/2011, Pam Orcutt wrote: >When I requested my free page I thought I could have more than one >free account >I need to rename my account reflecting that I have only one. How do >I do that? Pam, The Freepages agreement states that each user may have only one account, and that account names can NOT be changed. See http://accounts.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index.cgi?op=show&page=freeacct.htm&agree=1 Pat Asher ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 14:51:20 -0500 From: Ian Singer <ian@iansinger.com> Subject: Re: [FreeHelp] (no subject) To: freepages-help@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <4D5C2AB8.7040309@iansinger.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed On 2/16/2011 2:14 PM, Pat Asher wrote: > At 01:45 PM 2/16/2011, Pam Orcutt wrote: >> When I requested my free page I thought I could have more than one >> free account >> I need to rename my account reflecting that I have only one. How do >> I do that? > > Pam, > > The Freepages agreement states that each user may have only one > account, and that account names can NOT be changed. See > > http://accounts.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index.cgi?op=show&page=freeacct.htm&agree=1 > > > Pat Asher But is there not a facility to contact customer care and ask them to change the account name, or to cancel the account so that a more appropriate name can be selected?? There can not be many companies that would be so rigid that they would deny a reasonable request. Ian Singer -- ========================================================================= See my homepage at http://www.iansinger.com hosted on http://www.1and1.com/?k_id=10623894 All genealogy is stored in TMG from http://www.whollygenes.com Charts and searching using TNG from http://www.tngsitebuilding.com I am near Toronto Canada, can I tell where you are from your reply? ========================================================================= ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 15:15:36 -0500 From: Pat Geary <pat@the-gearys.com> Subject: Re: [FreeHelp] (no subject) To: freepages-help@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <201102162015.p1GKFdWe031348@mail.rootsweb.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed At 02:51 PM 2/16/2011, Ian Singer wrote: >But is there not a facility to contact customer care and ask them to >change the account name, or to cancel the account so that a more >appropriate name can be selected?? ============= I doubt it since it is clearly states in the agreement you have to agree to before the account is granted. NOTE: Limit one FREEPAGES account per user. You may NOT use a FREEPAGES account for file storage. Do NOT upload MP3, zip, mpg, avi, ram files, etc. as your account will be closed. PLEASE NOTE: Your account name will become part of your URL, as in http://freepages.communityname.rootsweb.com/~acctname/. Account name must be at least 4 characters long and must consist only of lower case letters and numbers, but may not begin with a number. No spaces or characters (such as - _ / . ') are allowed. Select your account name carefully as names of accounts can NOT be changed and you may not close an account and open a new one. When I first started my account, it was for genealogy. I later moved it to paid hosting. While I still had the freepages account, the focus of the site changed. So gearyfamily which worked when I started was changed to reflect genealogy computer tips for rootsweb users. Which is why users are told to consider carefully the name they choose. Pat G. ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 15:15:41 -0500 From: "J.A. Florian" <cageycat@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [FreeHelp] (no subject) To: Pam Orcutt <pamelaorcutt@ymail.com> Cc: Freepages-Help-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <AANLkTindwLX61m11BVSROtZ7+KkZYpZK=wr41m1YaHix@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Pamela, I don't understand your exact concern but to clarify: 1. "freepages" allows only ONE "account" (~youraccount) 2. "freepages" has, I think, 9 "categories" -- each acts as a separate "website" BUT ALSO (see #3) 3. You can cross-link all of the category websites into 1 bigger "website" 4. If you use the "miscellaneous" (misc) category, your URL will be shorter and "misc" can act as the "main page" for all the category websites. For example, I use the categories of family, genealogy, school-alumni, religions, and misc. Others on this List told me I could use the "misc" site to make it easier for visitors because "misc" has the shorter URL. See http://freepages.misc.rootsweb.com/~florian/ As you see, on that page I give the URLs for each freepages category that I use (plus one account I have on the "rootsweb" server). As well as giving links to all my "sites", I also USE the misc website for a different type of content. So in effect, I have 5 "webs" in freepages by using the different "categories" they offer. I don't remember all the other ones, but 2 others off the top of my head are "nostalgia" and "military". You can make a pretty big overall "site" just using the freepages "categories" offered in each person's (one-only) account. So you might want to check it out a bit more before feeling disappointed or frustrated about the account name you requested. Judy On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 1:45 PM, Pam Orcutt <pamelaorcutt@ymail.com> wrote: > When I requested my free page I thought I could have more than one free > account > I need to rename my account reflecting that I have only one. How do I do > that? > > Pamela Orcutt > ------------------------------ Message: 6 Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 09:19:52 +1300 From: Barry Carlson <barrycarls@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [FreeHelp] (no subject) To: freepages-help@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <4D5C3168.4010505@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Judy, if you want the shortest url, it is:- http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~florian/ Try it yourself. Barry On 17/02/2011 9:15 a.m., J.A. Florian wrote: > Others on this List told me I could use the "misc" > site to make it easier for visitors because "misc" has the shorter URL. > See http://freepages.misc.rootsweb.com/~florian/ > As you see, on that page I give the URLs for each freepages category that I > use (plus one account I have on the "rootsweb" server). > As well as giving links to all my "sites", I also USE the misc website for a > different type of content. > ------------------------------ Message: 7 Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 09:28:04 +1300 From: Wendy Howard <wendy.howard@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [FreeHelp] (no subject) To: Freepages-Help-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <4D5C3354.3030105@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Judy said: > 4. If you use the "miscellaneous" (misc) category, your URL will be shorter > and "misc" can act as the "main page" for all the category websites. > > For example ... http://freepages.misc.rootsweb.com/~florian/ Even better, if you use the "misc" folder to hold your main index.htm(l) file you don't have to put it in the URL - for example, http://freepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wendyh65/ <http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/%7Ewendyh65/> takes you to http://freepages.misc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wendyh65/index.htm I use that as my "home" page, with links on it going to other pages. Kind Regards, Wendy ------------------------------ Message: 8 Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 14:31:18 -0600 From: Lorrie Laskey <lrmalcom@bellsouth.net> Subject: Re: [FreeHelp] (no subject) To: freepages-help@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <4D5C3416.4040908@bellsouth.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed How does this work? The link opens Judy's site but when I substitute my site's name for "florian", the page is directed to a general index page with my url. Selecting the "parent directory" link opens the "Freepages: Free Unlimited Web Space" page. Lorrie On 02/16/11 14:19, Barry Carlson wrote: > Judy, > > if you want the shortest url, it is:- > > http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~florian/ > > Try it yourself. > > Barry > > > > On 17/02/2011 9:15 a.m., J.A. Florian wrote: >> Others on this List told me I could use the "misc" >> site to make it easier for visitors because "misc" has the shorter URL. >> See http://freepages.misc.rootsweb.com/~florian/ >> As you see, on that page I give the URLs for each freepages category that I >> use (plus one account I have on the "rootsweb" server). >> As well as giving links to all my "sites", I also USE the misc website for a >> different type of content. >> > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FREEPAGES-HELP-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > ------------------------------ Message: 9 Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 15:34:21 -0500 From: Pat Asher <pjroots@att.net> Subject: Re: [FreeHelp] (no subject) To: Ian Singer <ian@iansinger.com> Cc: freepages-help@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <426331.98720.qm@smtp101.sbc.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed At 02:51 PM 2/16/2011, Ian Singer wrote: >But is there not a facility to contact customer care and ask them to >change the account name, or to cancel the account so that a more >appropriate name can be selected?? Ian, The Freepages agreement is a CONTRACT, signed by the person requesting the account. As Pat Geary pointed out, the requester must agree to the terms of the contract before the account is granted. Pat Asher ------------------------------ To contact the FREEPAGES-HELP list administrator, send an email to FREEPAGES-HELP-admin@rootsweb.com. To post a message to the FREEPAGES-HELP mailing list, send an email to FREEPAGES-HELP@rootsweb.com. __________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FREEPAGES-HELP-request@rootsweb.com with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body of the email with no additional text. End of FREEPAGES-HELP Digest, Vol 6, Issue 40 *********************************************