Just recently a message was posted to Hesse-L about Genforum site.
I must caution you to stay away from that place.
The owner stole the names of all Rootsweb surname lists and all the
regional (including this list) lists and set up his own site for his
PROFIT intents. He had already told many of us last summer (July 97)
that he intends to commercialize the information you might post for his
profit (including selling your email addresses) as well as had been
making threats against ANYONE who dare mention the name of Rootsweb. I
kid you not about the threat.
Beside those who don't have Internet access can't visit the site anyway.
Mailing list is much more effective than that website.
We the listowners of the mailing lists did shut him down last summer
because of copyright and plagarism violations and he moved the site to
another server.
Now please don't discuss any further on the merits of Genforum for it is
not worthy of that name on this list or any other list.