About a year ago I came up with a mechanism to allow subscription or controlled circulation magazines to be distributed on the net. Not saying is new, just was new to me. Seems like it would be a mechanism for anyone to communicate/access Web pages without crypto, yet allowing protection of such things from those requiring such protection. Concept works like this: LZ (or most other) compressed files have two elements - a data dictionary and ordered pointers to that dictionary. Now say you took a large number of text files/.Gifs/.Jpegs/whatever and created a universal (well nearly) data dictionary that would fit on a CD-Rom. Using large patterns and good ordering techniques could achieve good throughput. Now to a group of subscribers/friends/whatever, the disk is distributed in a controlled manner. Once distribution is made, then what is sent on the net/put on the Web page are just the pointers to the data dictionary plus any patterns not in the dictionary (low enough not to create anything intelligable). What you have is a gigantic book code with a copyrightable book for which you can control the circulation. Those under age need not apply. If they obtain one, then it was illegally and you have made a "good faith attempt" IMNSLO to protect the innocent. Can even change the CD-Rom dictionary *order* yearly/montly/whatever if you want. Comment ? Warmly, Padgett ps if you reply to the list, *please* do not copy me, my volume is silly enough without getting duplicates as it is.