This evening I heard a story on Internet censorship on All Things Considered. They said that Compuserve was close to deploying technology to keep only Germans out of the 200 news groups. (Compuserve and the Germans still disagree about where the list came from.) They also interviewed Denise Curaso (sp?) who provided some reality about the how censorship could quickly move to political views that certain countries don't like and how a Compuserve user could easly bypass Compuserve censorship. The story ended with the comment that in the past, many net people have said that since the Internet was designed to survive atomic war, the net would just bypass around censorship, but between the Germans and Exon, fewer of them are saying it now. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Bill Frantz Periwinkle -- Computer Consulting (408)356-8506 16345 Englewood Ave. frantz@netcom.com Los Gatos, CA 95032, USA