Dear friends: The discussion can continue, as they say, until they are blue in the face. But I believe there would be substantial legal questions raised if information that one created oneself and contributed to a web site and that web site closed off access to it. Without being too brutally blunt about it, what would be the difference between that legally if your grandfather had a foal and it went into his neighbor's barn and the neighbor locked the door and barred grandfather access to the foal? Data can, in fact, be copyrighted. The laws related to the degree to which they are your unique creation. No pretense can stop that. To use the foal analogy again, as rough as it is, just because someone let their foal into their pasture does not mean they can keep it. The issue becomes compounded when your information is used for commercial purposes. That raises all sorts of legal questions involving copyright that could be redressed in court. It is true that the laws involving copyright have yet to evolve enough to handle all the questions being raised by the internet. But the courts have told Napster they can't take one person's recording of music and give it to another. I am less than impressed by the charitable nature of an organization that offers web space to obtain information, gets thousands of contributions and then says it is selling them, if I understand the issue. dhamrick@neo.rr.com Daniel A. Hamrick 402 23rd Street NW Canton OH 44709 1-330-454-2376