Remember quite some time ago, when then NY Attorney General Dennis Vacco tried to jump-start his bid for re-election by seizing the news servers of two local ISPs claiming that he had busted a "Virtual University Devoted to the Sexual Abuse of Children" and that the two ISPs in question provided child porn access for this alleged "Institution." Well, Vacco lost the election, the news servers turned out to carry the same uncensored newsfeed as thousands of other ISPs, and "Pedo University" turned out to be a running gag in a couple less tasteful newsgroups where regulars would identify themselves as mythical faculty members when responding to trolls. In the end, a few people got busted for downloading questionable Usenet content, but no children were saved, and the newsgroups in question continued merrily onwards, along with the people adopting the "Pedo University" moniker. I don't know if it's anticipatory anxiety over the upcoming Shrub Administrations "War on Porn" or just plain idiocy, but it appears that one of the ISPs featured in Vacco's halucinations has decided to roll over and plead guilty to "knowingly providing access to child porn" from its Usenet feed. The Wired News take on these amazing festivities can be found at the following URL... http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,41878,00.html Apparently, in return for setting the precedent that ISP's are responsible for the content carried on their Usenet servers, and pissing in the Common Carrier punchbowl for everyone else in the country, BuffNET will get to pay only a $5k fine, and get relief from an obnoxious police investigation which is already running into its second year. Ashcroft hasn't even warmed up yet, and the Lemmings are already hurling themselves into the sea of their own volition. Who says Sheeple don't get the government they deserve. <snicker> -- Eric Michael Cordian 0+ O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division "Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law"