I dont know if this is a good idea. I think CI$ shut off the newsgroups due to economic presure- from some German officials. Drop them or we ban CI$. Now, if CI$ were to shed excess customers in the rest of the world... they might just turn those newsgroups back on. So if folks turned on twit filters and deleted-before-reading mail from anyone@compuserve - and if folks, newsletters etc refused to SEND mail to accounts@ci$ ... well if enough ci$ customers were to LEAVE. This is not a proposal..some of my best friends are at compuserve.