> If a number of us feel Google has gone too far, maybe it would help if > we all contacted them as individuals and requested they remove certain > things we find to be an intrusion of privacy. Google already offers a way to keep your posts from being archived at their website and a way to have your previous posts removed from their public archive. See their "Frequently Asked Question About Posting" at: http://groups.google.com/googlegroups/posting_faq.html If you are upset, you should probably complain to Rootsweb. I think it is their representation of this USENET newsgroup as a Rootsweb mailing list that causes confusion. When you subscribe to the GEN-ITALIAN list at Rootsweb, the welcome message does not mention that you are subscribed to a public USENET newsgroup. It does not mention that Rootsweb will maintain an archive of your messages in perpetuity and that the archive is open to the public. Also, I could not find any info at Rootsweb about having your messages removed from the archive. Rootsweb apparently does not even adhere to USENET standards regarding "No Archive" requests and message removal requests, since messages that have been removed at Google, and other USENET archives, remain in the Rootsweb archive. Regina