I wasn't picking on you--I don't think it was you who asked what's not to like about losing Anonymous matches.  BTW winning isn't anything.  Unless winning is defined as taking care of all of nature as best as is possible.  And I've got enough fish to fry that I haven't tried hard enough to derail some of the catastrophic changes I foresee in the new 23 system.  On Sat, 07 Nov 2015 14:15:03 -0500, Jim Bartlett wrote: John You got me. You win! Jim - www.segmentology.org > On Nov 7, 2015, at 2:09 PM, jlerch1 via wrote: > > Someone asked so what's not to like about losing all the ANONYMOUS > Matches. Well: > There have been multiple times when I got a match with someone and NO > ONE with whom I was Sharing matched that person. So I went to > COuntries of Ancestry and Lo and Behold, both of us had 1 or more > Anonymous matches with grandparent profiles LIKE > (Vanuatu, Israel, Latvia, Slovakia). Now for those of you not getting > it, how likely is that 2 person were to have that profile? So I > reported the good news to that person that yes our match was > corroborated even though I had no idea with whom. Under the new > system, those persons are just going to have to be uncorroborated and > maybe that person will stop Sharing. And if Jim B is correct that > persons might be Anonymous to everyone but those with whom they > Share, that person might totally drop off my list and I'll NEVER be > able to write to him on 23 again. John L >