OK, I have a proposal that consolidates two threads that have been discussed recently. How about proposing legislation that mandates that a byte is now 9 bits instead of 8. This would allow the ninth bit to be the decent/indecent bit, thereby solving all of our problems. Clay --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Clay Olbon II | Clay.Olbon@dynetics.com Systems Engineer | ph: (810) 589-9930 fax 9934 Dynetics, Inc., Ste 302 | http://www.msen.com/~olbon/olbon.html 550 Stephenson Hwy | PGP262 public key: on web page Troy, MI 48083-1109 | pgp print: B97397AD50233C77523FD058BD1BB7C0 TANSTAAFL ---------------------------------------------------------------------------