Thanks for the reply, Pat - but the e-address was visible and copiable on the google header, as you can see from my original message: can this not be avoided? 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 -----Original Message----- From: Pat Asher <pjroots@att.net> To: Freepages-Help <Freepages-Help@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sun, 10 Jul 2011 16:17 Subject: Re: [FreeHelp] Guestbook 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 ------------------------------- 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