My two cents: I've used Dejanews for almost a month now, and have been consistently impressed with the results. The uses are many; the danger, as others have noted, is that people forget (or never realize in the first place) that you should never post anything to Usenet that you wouldn't want to see plastered on the evening news. Having said that, I'm greatly looking forward to the impending addition of the alt.* groups to their archives. Everyone is indeed a Kibo now, and the general public has become more aware of the need for reputations as a result. -- http://yakko.cs.wmich.edu/~frogfarm ..for the best in unapproved information EmmaGoldmanCamillePagliaMarieCurieAynRandSapphoDianaToriAmosPJHarvey&Demona Living in dread with your fragile brain and the executioner's got your number I feel a groove comin' on Freedom...yeah, right.