With these context, thus, the article gave a wrong impression that GeoCities won't mind one bit if one never make changes to the main page. A lot of abandoned, inactive, or not-moved-in sites have been removed from the GeoCities servers and more are under investigation.
I, being a Tokyo CL from February 1998 and an Island suburb co-Liaison, have caused the deletion of about 2000+ sites up to December 1998. The sites include abandoned, inactive, not-moved-in, signpost, storage, multiple accounts or sites that have violated the content guidelines.
Also, the article presented a tone that one could use a free homestead for purposes of storing " . . . personal data files --- your address book, your browser, bookmarks, passwords . . ."
This intentional use of a free homepage as storage is not in accordance with netiquette, or to say it more vaguely: prohibited, not just in GeoCities as well as by other free hosts, such as Tripod, Xoom, etc. One only has to read and understand the member guidelines before signing-up.
Incidentally, you could not upload exe files into your GeoCities homestead. The security features of GeoCities disabled this feature, thus unfortunate for readers of Peczon's article that they were made to believe that in GeoCities you could upload your browser into your directory or your address book software.
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