How can anyone who is not personally involved with the decision to trash Dr. Gelson's account could fault Mr. Gomide in this matter? Surely, if Dr. Gelson was not treated fairly by Mr. Gomide, he could take the matter up with Mr. Gomide and higher management there. I am not sure if my employer's rules are any different than anyone else's, but we would never boot a legitimate user off one of our systems unless we had damned good reason to do so and could justify it to our Vice President if necessary. It seems obvious to me that Dr. Gelson is not qualified to teach a network course. Now that I think about it, it also seems very strange that Dr. Gelson asked for donations directly to him, and not to his employer? This idea of helping offset the networking costs there seems mighty strange given the fact that he wanted the checks in his name. Hmmm. I suspect its what got him in trouble, not the mass cross-posting of the announcement per se. Take care everyone, Stan Horwitz Internet: STAN @ VM.TEMPLE.EDU Bitnet: STAN @ TEMPLEVM Temple University's Sr. Mainframe Consultant; Manager of the Help-Net and Suggest lists; Listserv Postmaster Standard disclaimers apply. One of these days I will make this sig file look much nicer.