On another subject entirely... I have naturally been concerned about the Feds' proposal to set up a national job licensing system. In order to protect us from hordes of illegals, they have suggested that employers be required to check SS#-True Name matches before employment could begin. This amounts to requiring federal permission for the 55 million annual job changes. Initially, it is supposed to be restricted to checking SS# validity, name match, and non multiple use. Later (as with driver's licenses) they will add restrictions having to do with tax compliance, child support compliance, library fine compliance, etc. After all, we wouldn't want tax evading, deadbeat dad, library scofflaws working in Amerika, would we? This suggests am interesting Denial of Service (DOS) attack. If you published your own or others' SS#-True Name pairs on a public forum (currently completely legal BTW), multiple use could be encouraged, the TrueNames would become unemployable, and interesting litigation would result. If done enough, systemic breakdown would occur. I am anxious to see the regs (they are just at the talking stage) to see how they handle "exceptions" like thus. DCF "Who in spite of the fact that he has changed jobs since November 1986, has yet to fill out an I-9 form. He *loves* contract employment."