(With apologies ahead of time -- I got me a new mailer, here, affectionately known as the Mailer from Hell, and it's doing weird things) (not just like the daemon who automagically changed w I erd to weird and changed a minuscule letter eye to a capital one, quelle chutzpah!, yet does NOT catch words like "speling" <grin>, but is creating strange characters and line breaks in list mail ... We're working on it; meanwhile, your patience and understanding is appreciated.) >Now THAT's amusing :-) I've had some back and forth correspondence with <with great innocence> But ... but ... wouldn't Bill *like* to be on lstown-l? And surely Newtie would revel in being subscribed to pagan-l. >With a tiny bit of luck, someone may convince Congress that SPAM is just as >bad as indecency (if not worse) and extend the same legal sanctions to mass >emailing that exist for mass faxing. True, but what I'm afraid of is that the gummint is going to come in and heavy handedly impose all sorts of unwanted and unneeded regulations on a medium whereof it knows nothing, and at the urging of an ignorant public that is convinced that the Net is a hot-bed of kiddie pornographers just waiting to drag their sons, their daughters into the arms of a jungle animal instinct ... Erm, sorry, getting spacy. And now I'll have the Pool Hall tune from Music Man running in my head all night, betcha. What I mean to say is that I'd MUCH rather try to police this from the inside, cooperatively, and through use of various tweakings and patches to the existing technology. >/s Murphy A. Sewall <[log in to unmask]> (860) 486-2489 voice Mario Rups, whose next act is to exercise the spelling daemon [log in to unmask]