:> I think this is the way to go, and I don't think we need special :> groups for it either. Tim, just as an experiment, post a message :> to any group you like (except netcom ones!) with 'gtoal' in it :> somewhere (innocuously, like in a .sig), and I'll show you how easy :> it is to find stuff that's addressed to you. :Mass kibozing is certainly an option for the receiver, but I think :this scheme is going to provoke loud complaints from most sysadmins :if it ever gets off the ground. I agree with Karl's comments re Heh. I'd never contemplate such a thing. In practice if I were using such a scheme I'd probably stick to *.test - I was just pointing out that Tim doesn't need to create an alt.w.a.s.t.e group specifically for the traffic. In fact, we *can't* create any such group specifically for the traffic because it wouldn't be carried, and you could trace recipients easily because all the people who talked to each other this way would have to arrange for their own feeds to take the group and get it from each other. (Actually I *had* been giving serious thought to such a scheme for an anonymous fax service I've been thinking about, but thought better of it, because, as you say, the net would want my head for posting 100's of K's of encrypted binaries in alt.test :-) ) G