I was eating lunch today, staring at the cover of "Wired", when the phrase "The medium..." caught my eye. This set off a whole train of thought on message concealibility, like hiding messages in, say, the order of headers in a posting, or the "Reply-To:" header, or even the words in subsequent postings to a newsgroup. Who would ever think to look at, say, the third word in every posting Tim makes to alt.whatever newsgroup? Or in the "Date:" field, or in the "Message-ID:" field, or ... or ... or ... Hmmm. Food for thought. -- Ed Carp erc@wetware.com 510/659-9560 For anonymous mailers --> anonymus+5300@charcoal.com "I've met many thinkers and many cats, but the wisdom of cats is infinitely superior." -- Hippolyte Taine (1828-1893)