This brings up the subject of how one can post without leaving an "ASCII fingerprint". I suspect the use of a spelling checker and grammatical checker would help. Perhaps running your text through a language converter, (say English to French) then back would remove many identifying characteristics. Two words: "jive"; "valspeak". Okay, two more: "swedish chef". Sure, it makes it a little harder to extract semantics from a message, and it can be hard to keep from giggling at the results, but those lex-based filters would work much better than some English->French->English translator program. You'd want to run the results through a reading-level checking program to make sure you knocked out the 64-dollar words; the size of ones vocabulary is one of those "identifying characteristics." Jazz