Yes, and you might therefore conclude someone doesn't want you to browse ... but you'd have to take that up with the "service" provider, exploring what "security" might mean for public records provided as PDF files, but now harder to get at. John "Bob Nichol" <bnichol@iname.com> wrote: > Thanks for that, John--you're correct.  Trouble is, this makes >"browsing" next to impossible.  Before this, one was able to race thru >hundreds of pages pertinent to a particular timespan, checking out not >only grantors and grantees, but also witnesses and odd remarks that give >clues to relationships.  No more.... > >Bob