My sincere thanks to the many subscribers here who wrote to me and to the list with their thoughts and advice. It was greatly appreciated. At the time I posted, I still hadn't heard from the folks in the computing center of the college where the death threat posted to my list originated. Because of my reference to Albany, NY, some people assumed I was talking about a student at SUNY-Albany (sorry about that Mike!). In fact, the message was sent from a college which I understand is just outside Albany. When the computing center personnel showed up for work today, they immediately yanked this freshman political science student's account. The Head of Security was notified, and the matter referred to the Assistant Vice President for Academic Affairs, who has scheduled a hearing on the matter. The postmaster interviewed the student prior to my speaking with her this afternoon, and she has indicated that she expects that for the next three years (his remaining time at the college), he will not be provided with an account. I received calls from two different people in the center concerning the matter, along with a response to my e-mail message, assuring me that they were not taking this matter lightly, and asking for more information from me in order to aid their investigation of the matter. The student claims that someone else used his account to sign him up to the list, he believed a friend was sending him mail, and that he was replying to this friend. He had no idea he was posting to a list, and that ca. 600 people would see his message... That's where it stands at the moment. I can't help but wonder if the multiple complaints received (some of my subscribers copied me on the messages they sent to the postmaster and/or on her response) made a difference in terms of how, and how quickly, they responded in this case, but I don't really get a sense that they would have taken it any less seriously if I had been the only person to notify them of the offending message. Thanks again for your helpful comments, and your expressions of support. Later, kt