I was just thinking. My roommate mentioned that he saw an ad for a service available in europe. They send you an 8mm tape evey week that has all the USENET traffic on it. I was thinking that a large There is also a company in Vancouver B.C. that will sell you a subscription to USENET on CDROM. Each CD contains about a week of

traffic (the cost is something like US$20 per CD). They CDs don't include traffic from certain newsgroups (mostly the sex related ones. I guess they don't want to get busted for distributing obscene material). I can dig up contact information, if anyone is interested. I spoke with one of their representatives a while back, and they apparently have sold subscriptions to various government agencies in the U.S. and Canada. Mark -- Mark Henderson markh@wimsey.bc.ca (personal account) RIPEM and ViaCrypt PGP 2.4 keys available by key server/finger/E-mail RIPEM MD5OfPublicKey: F1F5F0C3984CBEAF3889ADAFA2437433 ViaCrypt PGP Key Fingerprint: 21 F6 AF 2B 6A 8A 0B E1 A1 2A 2A 06 4A D5 92 46