On 30 Mar 2002 21:58:33 -0800, ginocolumbo@yahoo.com (Gino Columbo) wrote: >You've got a lot of gall blasting Steve when you post with a phony >name and address. >Basta! >Gino Columbo Fake identity has always been the prefered methond of participating in news groups. It's only with the advent of other gateways to news groups like Rootsweb that using an actual address has become necessary, since they mail the messages to "subscribers". These news groups are the number one place where junk emailers harvest addresses to flood with their garbage. Take a long hard look at some of the "names" and "addresses" here and you'll start to get the big picture. I openly fake my address, all anyone has to do is look at it to know that. None of this precludes me from saying publicly that Steve ought to be able to answer a request for help, once in a while, without having people have to go to his site first. I'd wager there are thousands of participants here who have sites of their own. Wouldn't it get boring if we all began our answers, "Go to my web site"? Frank F.