I usually avoid passing on URLs of interesting sites, in the name of conserving bandwidth (*), but this one really has me jazzed: http://dejanews.com/ It allows searching of Usenet archives (a few months' worth, from what I can see). This was pointed out to me on the Cyberia list, by Eugene Volokh, who wrote: " Check out http://dejanews.com/ -- truly a remarkable service. They index a huge number of Internet news groups, and let you search through them for any word or words you want. " Want to know what people are saying about some new book? About some political topic? Most importantly, about you behind your back? Check it out! Lots of fun, and a bit scary." A good way for newcomers to find out what's been written on some topic that interests them, or to see who's writing what. (I checked out the index for: "Blacknet," "Chaum," and a bunch of other things...the possibilities are endless, and I suspect this will be the URL I go to more often than any other.) --Tim May (* Perhaps someday we might ask people what their favorite URLs are. We've done polls on books, so why not URLs?) Views here are not the views of my Internet Service Provider or Government. ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay@got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^756839 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders are just speed bumps on the information superhighway."