Robert J. Woodhead wrote: # This is an excellent idea. A modest suggestion: build a email-based # digital cash system; allot each reader a certain amount of cash # per month I obviously need to read up on the digital cash idea. The messages that I've read make the concept sound like play money... I mean, does the coin of the realm in my pocket become the ethereal coin in a digital bank? What protections are there from digital embezzlers? Whither the FDIC? (Why is the sky blue? :-) et cetera.) If the whole subject is just a classroom exercise in economics and authentication theory, then I'll be a little disappointed. Bob -- ============================================================================== Bob Izenberg voice phone: 512-891-8680 Motorola RISC Software bobi@vswr.sps.mot.com ==============================================================================