Maybe I'm dense, but it didn't really "click" until the other day that the Netscape mail reader, which renders html pages mailed as attachments right there in the mail reader window, would also run any Java applets (and, I guess, Javascript code) referenced by the page. If you're using Netscape as a mail reader, and this isn't old news to you, you can try it: point the browser at a page with an applet, and then use the "File->Mail Document" menu command to mail it to yourself. Thus: if you want to gather some free compute cycles, just spam a document out to a few thousand hapless victims. Those using Netscape for mail (and you can find them pretty easily by looking at the "X-Mailer" field when creating your mailing list) will click on your message, pull your applet, and give you some cycles without realizing it. Of course, your applet will be free to connect back to home base and relay any results it gets. Cool, huh? ______c_____________________________________________________________________ Mike M Nally * Tiv^H^H^H IBM * Austin TX * For the time being, m5@tivoli.com * m101@io.com * <URL:http://www.io.com/~m101> * three heads and eight arms.