(Warning: I am EXTREMELY frustrated having waited over TWELVE HOURS for my messages on this topic to appear; after some presumed glitch caused my Compuserve message to get lost I re-sent it THREE HOURS ago from a DIRECT INTERNET CONNECTED system and I still haven't seen it.) To the suggestion that Jim Bidzos was just doing what he had to do in sending that threatening letter to Stanton McCandlish who was giving away PGP: It's too bad that McCandlish isn't in the Bay area. Then he could have been at the Cypherpunks meeting last weekend and Bidzos could have served papers on him right then and there. That would have saved Bidzos the cost of a postage stamp. Perhaps such legal actions can be a feature of future meetings. Shocking? What Bidzos did was the electronic equivalent of what I've just described. If you're willing to countenance his actions then you should be just as willing to accept and abet crackdowns on unapproved, unauthorized cryptography. Just make sure you go into this with your eyes open. Hal