well, nobody has commented on this a whole lot here from what I can tell, but the net is now *plastered* with anonymous remailers in various forms. it's definitely not going away. we now have mail.yahoo.com which can create an alias in a few minutes. also, www.hotmail.com and there are others. one could argue the Net PC (NC) is already here!! web TV allows much software to be run on it (btw, does anyone know if it runs java? if so, I'd say that's definitely a NC). the point is that sites such as games.yahoo.com etc. are essentially sites in which a web site is indistinguishable from software. "the network is the computer". larry ellison went home with his tail between his legs on the NC idea, but what he doesn't realize is that it is actually here en masse. (just not so much in the corporate arena as he envisioned) an interesting subset of anonymity is being used very intensely with online personals!! here's a sophisticated example http://personals.swoon.com/e_personals/static/help.html#e-mail they have a lot of info on how their site acts as a remailer for email messages. this is a very "slick" online magazine clearly showing huge amount of production cash which I personally haven't heard too much about. a bit risque for some peoples tastes, but very intriguing application of cyberspace one never would have dreamt up just a few moons ago. incidentally, there are bazillions of singles sites out there on the internet. its another application of the net one wouldn't necesarily have foreseen, but it really makes sense. hooking up people with people. a strange "killer app" of the net judging by how many there are. there's less "romantic" types of this thing too, for just hooking up people with similar interests, such as www.icq.com and www.cyberfriends.com one tasteful/decent place to start for singles sites is http://www.zdnet.com/yil/content/mag/9803/gurlsites.html ultimately the internet population is starting to discover that the key thing it does is related to *communities*....