Aldo, You seem to have missed the most important section of my posting: ie you objected to the practices and that the individual should have ceased immediately. Since you extended your argument, let me clarify what I meant by redistribution. If someone sends a message with the header, please circulate or redistribute, I assume that it is for redistribution and several governments send information which is used either to raise issues which they would like to survey internationally or to promote aspects of, in my case, computers in medicine. As for the quality issue, I avoid the subject out of modesty but we maintain a record of the praise of our activities and support of our group from international government and from the major supporting governments. We deal with the major issues in our field and actually are leaders with major impact on some of the most significantly active governments in the world. We do our utmost to maintain a high quality of service which is not without cost and enormous effort by our centers. This is, I believe, true of all lists. What the people distributing to our list have to say influences the shape and development of technology around the world. However, I believe that this is true of almost all of the lists which serve single minded purposes. You have either misunderstood my message or did not understand the process of communication which links directly into the media and government. Most of our participants represent their governments or some major area of research like DOD or DOE or Commerce or internationally WHO policies and UN initiatives. However, in all modesty, I believe that most lists share these same purposes and high standards and that we all spend enormous numbers of hours and service time achieving the desired goals. Best regards, Paul. -- Dr. Paul S. di Virgilio, University of Toronto [log in to unmask]