But I think you'd still need a securely pseudonymous

throwaway email address to set up the gmail account. And the lack of searches on that cookie would let them know, at least, that they're dealing with a privacy freak.

Hum...I've been thinking about that...seems to me one could set up anonymity using even Hotmail and Yahoo by a careful selection of completely improbably emails addresses. The timing might be tricky, though: 1. Think up two email addresses no one would have utilized...a random list of letters and numbers. 2. Go to Yahoo mail and sign up using one the email addresses. Plug in the other as the 'reference' and point it at, say, hotmail. 3. Open another browser to hotmail, do the reverse. 4. Hit send. 5. Hit send. This should cause the two email accounts to reference each other. Mightn't this work? If not, perhaps there's some way to delay one of the emails. -TD