Today, in one of those profound moments, I had a thought... I'm still in pain, so my therapy is to share with all of you. Canadian money is not only colorful, its bar coded... I'm so poor that I don't have two of the same bills handy to compare them, but I suspect that the bar codes only help identify the denomination (for vending machines and the like) and not the serial number on the bill. The serial number would, however, be very easy to read by OCR... after akk the numbers were printed by a machine and should all be the same font, size, etc. What are the odds that banking machines are actually tracking which bills they give you. If the banks then later checked out where the money was coming from, they could do some very interesting demographics... and it would be a great way to help catch bank machine criminals... Anyway, I know I'm just being paranoid... aren't I? -- Nick MacDonald | NMD on IRC i6t4@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca | PGP 2.1 Public key available via finger i6t4@unb.ca | (506) 457-1931 ^{1024/746EBB 1993/02/23}