An interesting sideline - I ran into an interesting situation at a local video rental place yesterday. If you give them your credit card number they charge you .25 less a tape to rent it(2.75 compared to 3.00) Your number goes into their customer databse. I laughed, and said i'd rather pay the .25 a tape than take the chance of some part-time HS kid getting ahold of my CC number. It's unbelieveable (to me anyway) that people would give this kind of information out and trust that it can't be abused. It's bad enough that we're asked to hand out our SS number for everything. Brian ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Linux : The choice of a GNU generation | finger blane@free.org witty comments pending | for PGP key and subLit ----------------------------------------------------------------------------