With all respect to you and to Netscape (I am one who thinks that the Netscape participation on this list has reflected very well on the participants and the company), I think that the reply "we only collect IP addresses" is not fully responsive to the issue. While I recognize that there are implementations that assign a new IP address to every login, I understand the current norm to be static IP addresses. I sure have one. Thus, if you keep a file of my IP address, and a fact about that address, you have a database that can be purchased and correllated with another DB, which links IP to somehting else, eg telephone numbers (perhaps from a contest run on the internet?). Pretty soon we are at serious profiling.... **** PLEASE NOTE NEW E-MAIL ADDRESS: froomkin@law.miami.edu ********* A. Michael Froomkin | +1 (305) 284-4285; +1 (305) 284-6506 (fax) Associate Professor of Law | U. Miami School of Law | froomkin@law.miami.edu P.O. Box 248087 | http://www.law.miami.edu/~froomkin Coral Gables, FL 33124 USA | New address, but it's still just as hot here.