If you are looking for free site hosting check out Webjump.com. They are similar to what geocities does but not exactly and they are smaller but to the best of my knowledge not using any funny shortcut url's Bill ----- Original Message ----- From: Barbara Ribling To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2001 5:46 PM Subject: Re: [GAWALKER] Walker County Page I have a site at GeoCities and it has the same annoying problem. The "shortcut" address does not work and seldom (if ever) has but GC continues to use this despite my trying to get it changed. Many search engines and genealogy lists have my WEB pages linked with the unusable shortcut. I have repeatedly tried to get FTM's search engine to change my links but they will not and therefore, people who find my pages through FTM seldom can reach my site. I expect it is the same for other search engines. Although I have submitted my URLs to several search engines, including FTM, Yahoo and others, and I used the full GeoCities address, their crawlers apparently check out the pages and record the shortcut URLs instead. I am now searching for a new home for my WEB pages. If you have trouble connecting to any GeoCities or Yahoo site using a "shortcut" URL, please try to visit the site again using it's full address! Barbara Ribling [email protected] Grandma Hudson's Scrapbook http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Ranch/5456/ BAYLESS, BENNETT, HUDSON, etc. - American Southeast At 09:33 PM 3/14/01 -0500, you wrote: >Beverly, >The problem Kim referred to is there and is real it is not on all links >just the ones that are of the general form >http://www.geocities.com/~osburn/someotherurl if they are of the form >http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Fields/6370/someotherurl they are fine >and indeed if you replace the ~osburn with the full path above they work. >I think Geocities changed some stuff and Sherry hasn't had time to update >it. Either that or she fixed it and they subsequently restored from an old >backup of her server. I have looked for some things and had the problem >Kim had. ==== GAWALKER Mailing List ==== If you wish to subscribe to or unsubscribe from the Walker Co., GA list, use [email protected] or [email protected] if you are on the Digest list. To learn more about my world visit http://dwp.bigplanet.com/kburnett