How does Geocities plan to maintain such a large community if it can't even keep its directories running?

It really ticks me off. And great, the've merged with Yahoo. That means more advertisments!

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http://www.geocities.com/BourbonStreet/Canal/6569
"You're young," said Athos. "Your bitter memories still have time to turn into sweet ones."

THat's why I like XOOM.

Sure, Geocities may have the Watermark (It's not a "GeoBrand"! Yegads.), a popup window, and a GeoGuide on every page.......but what do you expect??

Geocities maintains one of the largest collections of homepages on the internet. These homepages are offered free to anyone who wants them. Now, take a moment and think about that. Do you realize how many gigabytes of information are on the Geocities servers? Or how many computers are required to host all this stuff? Or what about the Geocities staff. They need to get Paid. You may be wondering where Geocities gets it's money from? Well, I'll tell you:

90% (Free homepages) - SPAM WINDOWS
10% (GeoPlus homepages) - USERS THEMSELVES

If more people like me would just effing PAY the $4.99/month for 25MB of SPAM-FREE, WATERMARK FREE, AND GEOGUIDE FREE webspace, a custom URL like mine (http://www.geocities.com/~codd/), and a whole bunch of other stuff......there would be less need for SPAM. Tink aboot it.

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listen.to/prophecies/
"Where were you on July 14th?"

www.liamnet.demon.co.uk

I like my homepage addy too.

Shagadelic loopholes baby! Use them!

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