Well, it turns out that (according to a nice person at SurfWatch who put up with the rant I mailed in and send back a denial rather quickly) io.com isn't actually blocked. At least, so they say. No comment on whether there's anything like the "25 complaints" policy. I don't own SurfWatch, but if anybody does and finds www.io.com blocked, I'll send in another rant. I wonder whether they've actually considered the liability situation in re: blocking sites that shouldn't be blocked? I mean, sure, they seem nice enough about setting things right (like with the Nynex sites whose url's had "xxx" in the paths), but it seems to this non-lawyer that a case could be made for damages inflicted by being known as a purveyor of filthy indecency for even a short while. ______c_____________________________________________________________________ Mike M Nally * Tiv^H^H^H IBM * Austin TX * pain is inevitable m5@tivoli.com * m101@io.com * <URL:http://www.io.com/~m101> * suffering is optional