According to an article in Saturday's San Francisco Chronicle, the US Senate's Rules Committee denied a junior Senate member's request to bring his laptop to the floor. Aparently, the Rules Committee believes that laptop use is incompatible with the hallowed nature of Senate debates. Diane Feinstein is cited as saying that she strongly opposes laptops in the Senate. She warned that if laptops were permitted, as many as 30-40 of the 100 members of the chamber might start using laptops (while making vital decisions about the future of this nation). The article also stated that mechanical pencils and wrist watches have however been permitted since the early 1900's. These people banning laptops amongst their peers are the same people who will decide on the future use of crypto by the masses. Give it up. Any dollar spent lobbying these Luddites is a dollar wasted. --Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com> PGP encrypted mail preferred. DES is dead! Please join in breaking RC5-56. http://rc5.distributed.net/