This is a snip from a news letter about rootsweb. We all enjoy the access to the lists from our server. If you have not made a contribution, I urge you to do so. We would all be hard pressed to find an alternative if the rootsweb coop was unable to fund the project. FASTER PAGES AT ROOTSWEB. As some folks may have noticed, access to <http://www.rootsweb.com> has been slower in recent weeks than it has been in the past. The reason is that so many genealogists are simultaneously using it that we are very nearly exceeding the amount of bandwidth we have available for transmitting Web pages through the Internet. To remedy that problem, RootsWeb has just signed a contract with Concentric.NET to obtain direct access to the Internet's backbone, and we will be moving the main Web server sometime within the next week. There will be about a four-hour downtime as we move the server. The great news is that this should allow us to serve pages as fast as the very best commercial sites on the Internet; the bad news is that this contract adds another $4,000 per month in expenses to our already extremely tight budget. Dr. Brian Leverich