That's something I did not consider.
Most places that allow private web space are pay sites, to the best of my knowledge. I created one years ago on a site called 'MyFamily', which has since disappeared, but allowed us to have a private family page. That was great, but we had to pay for the space. My thought, and of course, just my opinion, is that being able to make a site private would amount to the same thing, but with Poal giving away it's server space and operation costs, etc, so that a group or groups could have a free place all their own with no cost to them.
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