By publishing a private e-mail, both beker and Johnson are in violation of my copyright in that message, since it was a private communication and no permission was given to republish. Thus beker has now committed a new violation of his netcom agreement, and Johnson shows he has bad judgement. What's more, by trying to make what should be a private matter, to be decided by netcom based on their own rules, into a public cause celebre, and by writing to netcom as Johnson did to intervene in a private matter, he has made the situation worse for beker, not better. Netcom is perfectly capable of telling me to go peddle my papers if I'm wrong. Complaining against another user to netcom is with netcom's rules. I am, of course, content to rely on netcom's decision in these two matters. The behavior of officious intermeddlers like Johnson speaks for itself. By the way, I sent a copy of my complaint to beker at netcom support's own suggestion, in fairness to him. beker's abuse of that courtesy private e-mail means he has given up any chance of getting such courtesies from me in future. David