Hello, all! There is an article in Information Week's October 11 issue titled "The Cashless Society" that discusses debit cards, smart cards, etc. This magazine is a management-type trade publication that bills itself as "The newsmagazine for information management." A fair-sized article; it may be of interest. Over the years, I've found this mag to be a fairly good place to watch for trends; they carry the sort of articles that our brass photocopies and gives us with notes like "Can we do this?" attached. FYI. ........................................................................ Philippe D. Nave, Jr. | The person who does not use message encryption pdn@dwroll.dw.att.com | will soon be at the mercy of those who DO... Denver, Colorado USA | PGP public key: by arrangement.