Hi cyphers, I'm back. A certain 'nobody' invited me! ;-) Apparently only as far back as 1993, the definition of the word "spam" from the on-line jargon file was this (according to the New Hackers Dictionary) - spam [from the MUD community] vt. To crash a program by over-running a fixed- size buffer with excessively large input data. See also Buffer Overflow, Overrun Screw, Smash the Stack. Obviously that definition has changed since then. I've seen it go from that to repetitive commercial advertising, and I've seen it used to brand someone as an outcast of a list for future removal simply because a small minority didn't like what that person had said (so it was being used at that time to mean 'objectional material'). And in all the times I've seen the word fly, there has never been anykind of volume that would come close to overblowing the forum's mechanical capabilities. So, I'm curious as to who/what dictated the meaning of that to change so drasticly. Write me in private if it's off-subject (and yes, you can write me anonomously if you don't want a response. :-) ) Also, new address for my website - Stan, Stan and the Sequencers http://members.aol.com/StanSqncrs/