A letter to the editor is like spitting into the wind in this case. I think what's needed is a more constructive affirmative action, ideally taking Cantor and Siegel to court somewhere. I know that there was an FCC ruling in 1993 that has saved me LOADS of annoyance from telephone sales calls, because now if you get such a call and you formally request to be taken off their dialing lists, you can actually SUE them if they call you again. As a result, they now tend to take you very seriously when you make such a request in a knowledgable fashion. Does anyone know if there might be a similar legal case to be made against net spammers who persist after being warned? I suspect that it's easy to make such a case for email spamming, but probably not for spamming of umoderated newsgroups. Note that I speak entirely for myself here, not for my employers. -- Nathaniel