Thanks for explaining that, but I still think folk have got the wrong end of the stick here. Please correct me if I have misunderstood this, but doesn't the new TOS say that you cannot post a LINK in the forum? It does not say that you cannot say; it's on so-and-so's site over at such-and-such a place, as long as the LINK is not used. I saw this as being to do with the mechanics of who pays who for what when sites are accessed - plus the problem of course of hitting a brick wall if you post a link to a subscription site when people following it aren't subscribers. as for not being able to find stuff - well if you know the name of the site then Google will take about half a second to give you the URL so is it really that much of a problem? Like I said, please do correct me if this is not the case... and does anyone from admin want to pitch in?