There is a new forum type website on MyFamily.com called Western Maryland: Including Garrett and Allegany Counties. This forum allows posting of pictures and other documents. The site is brand new and there is not much there. But, it is expected to have a large response. If you are interested in joining us, please email me you first and last name alongwith your email address. Thank you Terrie Smith and Bonnie McCRoby Wuensche. terrie7@alltel.net

I'm curious.... This new web site isn't one of those "closed" web sites places where you have to supply the sponsor with your guest's name and e-mail address before they can visit is it? Where they can only visit the site after they read this long list of legal mumbo-jumbo (which is usually written so that few people actually read through it all....much less understand it) terms that they must agree to before they can enter and use the site for the first time? Where once a guest visits... the sponsor then sends them little messages (whenever someone posts something new at the site) to click on a link provided in the message so they can visit the site again and see what's been added? . The reason I ask is that I made the mistake of visiting a site like that a few years ago and after a while I began to notice that I would get this increase in SPAM after each visit. Finally put two and two together and made some inquiries..... Seems the folks who sponsor many of these so-called "free" but "closed" sites do so because it provides them with a means of collecting what they know to be active/valid e-mail addresses. They use and/or sell these e-mail addresses for SPAM purposes. They get away with this under the claim that it's not SPAM because the guest freely supplied their name & email address plus agreed to receive advertisements from them an/or their associates. Every time a person visits or revisits one of these "closed sites" it confirms that their email address is still valid and active. . Sponsoring genealogy websites is especially popular among those wanting to compile valid/active e-mail address lists because genealogists make up such a large percentage of today's Internet users. . Hmmm? ----- Original Message ----- From: Terrie Smith <terrie7@alltel.net> To: <MDGARRET-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2003 2:23 PM Subject: [MDGARRET] New website > There is a new forum type website on MyFamily.com called Western Maryland: Including Garrett and Allegany Counties. This forum allows posting of pictures and other documents. The site is brand new and there is not much there. But, it is expected to have a large response. If you are interested in joining us, please email me you first and last name alongwith your email address. Thank you Terrie Smith and Bonnie McCRoby Wuensche. > > terrie7@alltel.net >

Please add me to this web site. Thanks, Leon Clark leonsclark@cox.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Terrie Smith" <terrie7@alltel.net> To: <MDGARRET-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2003 4:23 PM Subject: [MDGARRET] New website | There is a new forum type website on MyFamily.com called Western Maryland: Including Garrett and Allegany Counties. This forum allows posting of pictures and other documents. The site is brand new and there is not much there. But, it is expected to have a large response. If you are interested in joining us, please email me you first and last name alongwith your email address. Thank you Terrie Smith and Bonnie McCRoby Wuensche. | | terrie7@alltel.net | | ______________________________