[Re: regulating dossiers et. al.] I'm sure that Phil Hallam-Baker has brought this up before, but there is a fair body of law on this subject internationaly. Probably the most restrictive is the UK Data Protection Act which regulates storage of personal information on computers (but not on paper). The DPA has a lot of holes, and seems to be honoured more in the breach than in the observance; other european countries have similar requirements. Of course, the UK has no FOIA, and won't until after the next election, so the most interesting databases aren't available. Simon ----- (defun modexpt (x y n) "computes (x^y) mod n" (cond ((= y 0) 1) ((= y 1) (mod x n)) ((evenp y) (mod (expt (modexpt x (/ y 2) n) 2) n)) (t (mod (* x (modexpt x (1- y) n)) n))))