I thought that entries in guestbooks could only be seen, were only compiled from the server, when the gbk was called? I googled "George Reginald Tilbury" and this came up top of the list Tilberia - Messages - [ Traduire cette page ] resources.rootsweb.ancestry.com/.../public_guestbook.cgi?... - En cache Name: George Reginald Tilbury, Jr <tilsgeorge@aol.com>. Date: 2011-07-07. Are you a Tilbury or Tilbury-related? a Tilbury (b 1937) ... If any gbk entry can be displayed thus, including e-address, this will discourage visitors from leaving info, contact email - enable abuse of their data? Or does it mean that somehow when I visit my gbk, google can reproduce the entry(ies)? Caroline ____ Poems written to celebrate Liverpool's 800th anniversary http://www.poem800.com/index.php "Tilberia" http://freepages.family.rootsweb.com/~cmtilbury "TheTilbury Magazine" http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cmtilbury/ttm/ttm_frontpage.html AlanT's London families, including his globetrotters, & Edward-the-warehouse T http://www.arext.plus.com/ "The Bingham Line" (with HMS Tilbury in WW1) http://freepages.family.rootsweb.com/~bingham

At 09:25 AM 7/10/2011, tilburycm@aim.com wrote: >I thought that entries in guestbooks could only be seen, were only >compiled from the server, when the gbk was called? I googled "George >Reginald Tilbury" and this came up top of the list True. But the information resides in a database on the server. Bots spider the server directly. In the past, RW was very picky about which bots were allowed that access. I would guess they still are. Also, if you view page source, you'll find email addresses are masked. The encryption is very basic and the emails could be harvested if desired, but Google retains the encryption. Pat Asher