At 04:21 PM 7/1/1999 -0500, you wrote:
>It's time to take action, if you have a website on geocities.
>
>Since purchase by Yahoo, they will no longer support SMTP mail, and
>the big problem is: their new "Terms of Service" aggreement states
>that Yahoo will own the copyright on everything you place on the website.
>
>I deleted over 200 personal aircraft photos from mine, today...and to
>make sure they weren't residing on a server somewhere in the bowels of
>geocities, I replaced every .jpg and .gif with a small file ( one .jpg
>and one .gif ) that contained nothing more than the text:
> "Photo removed from this website to prevent theft. I'll gladly
> provide by email, however."
>
>( Geocities has quietly been moving all photos onto their pic.geocities
>server for months - and redirecting image requests from your website
>to the pic.geocities server. I presume, so that they can have a
>copyrighted picture archive compliments of their users - who are forced
>to surrender their rights.)
>
>- John T.
Looks like Tripod is going to get more websites.
What other free sites are out there? I know there are others, I was shown
one recently, but forget the name.
bye, (\
Yolanda \\_/(\
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