Thanks for that info, PoppaGator. I hope you didn't get too exercised by my comment; it was meant as a gentle dig about the fact that not all the Mudcatters are US citizens or even American. Because I'm not American and I am old enough to have associated intimately with holocaust survivors I associate the initials SS with an organisation far more sinister than your Social Security.

In Oz we don't yet have a universal identifying number and quite a few of us regard this as a freedom we have that is denied to Americans. Tax File Numbers (TFB) and Medicare numbers come close but you're not automatically assigned these. The Canberra pollies are trying to introduce a universal identifyer but its enabling legislation hasn't yet been passed.

Back on thread, I inferred from your earlier post and Joe's supporting comment that there are two layers of access to photos on the personal pages at Mudcat; one that members can access once they've logged in (and which also gives access to PMs etc) and another, deeper, level which requires another password that is only privately passed between members.

Have I understood correctly? If I have, it seems reasonable to me that one way of achieving this would be by having the photos on the deeper level hosted on one's own computer and, if that was what was happening, would make sense of Bugsy's question and concern.

Perhaps someone could enlighten those of us who're not yet up to sysop competencies.

Cheers, Rowan