Playing around online today, it occured to me that much of Compu$pend's subscribers (and many other ISPs, especially smaller ones which might be subject to governmental pressures) rely largely on people who use chat modes frequently, often for sex-related chat... they cannot cut off IRC (for example) without hurting their income substantially. If someone put up an IRC<->news gateway, with a bot that allowed anyone on channel to read newsgroups, it'd be virtually impossible to censor; one could use a variable channel name to increase the difficulty of censoring it. Has anyone done this before? Or talked about it? Jon Lasser ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jon Lasser <jlasser@rwd.goucher.edu> (410)494-3072 Visit my home page at http://www.goucher.edu/~jlasser/ You have a friend at the NSA: Big Brother is watching. Finger for PGP key.