It occurs to me that Carol's problem may well be of considerable interest to c'punks and free speechers everywhere. Not that I favor spam or it's derivatives - but Cancelmoose and others define spam as *_50_* or more groups, esp. without crossposting. My basis for saying that Carol's situation is of interest is ---- as the net becomes more vulnerable to regulation, who among is immune to a quick cancellation of account? For something such as, say, the irresponsible (and antisocial?) advocacy of crypto? If an account can be chopped for 10 posts, where is the bottom limit? 5 perhaps? 2 maybe? 1 post that the sys-admin disagrees with? Developing the idea, and combining it with for-profit remailers...what would be wrong with a provider offering a unix shell based account, with the option of registering the account under a nym - and with finger user switchable from on to off and back again? The login ID would also be unconnected to the name. Frankly, none of this seems that radical...our friend, America On Line has some of these characteristics! Various 'anti-true spam' strategies could be used to prevent massive postings of Make Money Etc...But instead of a remailer, an actual *_system_* would be used. Payments could be by electronic invoice and money orders... Any thoughts on this? Dave