The sendero luminoso in Peru also works this way...Of course if you break their rules, they break your neck! For security reasons each 'member' of the Shining Path is only allowed to know of two other persons in the heirarchy. This makes for good plausible deniability as well as qwik and efficient dissolution. --Matt ______________________________________________________________________________ In defense of liberty, encrypt for all purposes, civil and professional. In defense of privacy, encrypt all correspondence, personal and professional. In defense of sanity, do not encrypt your dry cleaning invoice! ++++++++--------mjmiski@macc.wisc.edu (c)1993