Chip, What you say is true, BUT, It is free web space. You have to take the bad with the good. Athol ********************************************************************** Athol K. Foster Coordinator for DeKalb Co., Tn. TNGENWEB <http://www.tngenweb.org/dekalb/> My Home Page: "Foster's in DeKalb County, Tennessee" <http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Ranch/3627> -----Original Message----- From: Morom01@aol.com <Morom01@aol.com> To: TNGEN-L@rootsweb.com <TNGEN-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Saturday, January 30, 1999 7:15 AM Subject: Re: [TNGEN-L] Mailing list abuse >In a message dated 1/29/99 10:36:36 PM EST, ncole@coffey.com writes: > ><< I got disgusted with a geo cities site > and took the cookies...since then, some porn and a gazillion get rich > quick schemes.... >> > >Just today I got 8 or 9 tngen-l posts on this topic from you all. Between them >I got two porn ads and a get rich quick scheme. Since I do not visit porn >sites and the only get rich quick scheme I have is waiting on a rich relative >to die <g>, I believe that every time we give out our e-mail address we make a >greater risk for ourselves. This is an area that I believe if the Internet >doesn't police itself "Big Brother" eventually will. > >As for Geocities ughhh! I despise those people. Sorry and please don't take >offense if you use their pages. Their new pop up pages that will not allow the >user page to load if you close it before it finishes has a known bug. >Geocities knows about it. After visiting a Geocities page with the new popup >AOL 4.0 will crash. This is also true with IE 4.0. Keep in mind that this is >with their latest version of pop up. > >I'm off my soapbox now (and apparently my medication) >Chip >Union County TnGenWeb > > >==== TNGEN Mailing List ==== >Don't forget to visit TNGenWeb's Bulletin Board >http://pluto.beseen.com/boardroom/d/19731/ >Help the folks out if you can, but remember to answer >the query so it can be seen on line. >