Thanks Belinda. But now what I don't understand is: "...will remain visible until these members either choose a display name or opt out of the feature..."  The way I understand those words, if one is anonymous, stay anonymous and 23 will never do anything to you.  IOW nothing is going to change.  And all our frantic work is pointless. What worries me is: for being programmers, 23 sure seems to have people whose flow charts in their verbal communication come up to a branch point where one branch goes nowhere. On Fri, 6 Nov 2015 10:48:26 +1100, Belinda Dettmann wrote: John, I put your question to a staff member at 23andMe and got the following reply: "" Can someone say definitively, what happens to matches of ours who have accepted our Invite but continue to be Anonymous to the rest of their matches. The way I read 23's description, they're going to be all reverted to Anonymous and deleted from our lists." * That's not the case. First, all anonymous matches will remain visible until these members either choose a display name or opt out of the feature. Second, as mentioned in the original post, accepted introductions will be saved. The content of messages for introductions that have been accepted will be copied over to the updated messaging system in the new DNA Relatives. So if you have made contact with a match, this match will remain on your list and your messages will be available unless and until that match chooses to opt out of the feature." Belinda

> On Nov 5, 2015, at 4:00 PM, jlerch1 via <genealogy-dna@rootsweb.com> wrote: > > ...For being programmers, 23 sure seems to have people > whose flow charts in their verbal communication come up to a branch > point where one branch goes nowhere. Do you *know* any actual programmers? ;-) Lisa