Posted by Rick [Rick] on November 17, 1999 at 17:39:47 {xx2d.1sWpQ7ajbiu2wnkFMFBt36Xyc}:
I want you to know how much I appreciate your efforts to give a warm human three-dimensional side to those who participate on H2O (and would like others to know what kind of persons they are, even if they remain anonymous and/or pictureless). I'll try to make time to write something about myself and post it, so my name will have a link. ;-)
I appreciate your disclaimer. I deliberately avoided going overboard on legal disclaimers, because the FPP is clear regarding our responsibility for content on non-H2O sites (which started when we added a page linking to major Bible research-type web sites in our Tower Library on H2O). It's ashame we need any disclaimers on a site like this, but, as I understand the concept, a disclaimer's primary objective is to act as a "poison pill" to make a site unattractive to lawsuit-minded gold-diggers. It discourages someone from trying to go through you to get to us (as there are those who dearly want H2O to vanish into the blackness of cyberspace, believe it or not).
May I suggest that if you run out of disk space, you create a "photo repository" satellite site on Geocities or other free service and link the photos. Also, if you posted a little "tutorial" on how to enter HTML code to make a photo display in an H2O posting, the friends could optionally place a photo in their posts (and even make it "hot" or clickable to go directly to their bio on your site), like they display photos in some posts on www.witnesses.net forums. ;-)
Thanks again for your effort. It's also nice to know that if anything unexpected were to happen to H2O, your site can serve as a backup for "news bulletins" and such. (Not that I expect anything to go wrong, but with the Y2K bug there's a remote chance the power grid in the city where our ISP has its offices could black-out H2O at midnight of the New Year -- I can just see You Know's face, illuminated in the glow of his computer as it runs on a backup battery, smiling from ear to ear, fist raised triumphantly in the air, singing out the word "Yesssssss!!!!!" if the west coast power grid shuts down as doomsayers are predicting.) ;-]
Rick