Cypherpunks, I just had an amusing online experience. I checked in on Declan's "Wartime Liberty" news site, which I hadn't visited in for a month or so. It is: http://www.wartimeliberty.com Well, a banner ad began blinking in bright red at about 30 Hz, saying "If this banner ad is blinking, you have won a free prize!" Normally I can ignore these pieces of shit, but this same ad blinked in all of the subsections (encryption, policy, opinion, etc.) I checked. Very annoying. I never click on banner ads, but I decided to do an experiment, just to see what sort of company Declan has established this business relationship (of whatever kind) with. I'll spare you the details. Basically, I kept answering questions about my address and age and suchlike (I fibbed slightly, enough to look plausible but not enough to provide tips for the spam and passphrase harvesting I expect Declan's ad banner company is actually doing). After about four or five such screens, it finally told me to select the kinds of free prizes I wanted. All were of the usual bogus kind, including packets of advertising, discounts on subscriptions to magazines, etc. I clicked on none of them. Then came "da bomb": it asked me for the e-mail names of several other "friends." I left this blank and moved on. It wouldn't accept this, and kept returning to the nag screen demanding e-mail addresses. I left at this point. I guess I won't get my "free prize"! Sob. But the obnoxious blinking red banner ad is still telling me I've won a free prize. So I couldn't even stay on Declan's site, so obnoxious was the blinking banner. Declan, you really should be ashamed of yourself for this. Even if you don't personally choose all of the damned banner ads cluttering up your site, at least have the decency to not let spam harvesters run on your system! (I suspect they already harvested my "interest" as soon as I progressed to the "click to claim your prize" screen near the end. I'll be looking for spam arriving with the fibbed details I provided. My thought is maybe to bounce every one of these messages to Declan. Naw...) --Tim May, Occupied America "They that give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759.