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Joe wrote: Sorry to say, it _does_ affect us (though yes, it's off-topic, but most of us communicate through Internet links). The FedGov has a couple of taxes on local phone bills for many years. And unless you've forgotten the CDA, they want control over the Net, with special tools to decode any messages someone wants private. Classic computers will not work with those standards, of course. Yes, even if you aren't libertarian. (I know damned well that there are one or two socialists on this list), we can be affected -- we can be forbidden to communicate. And there are at _least_ two attempts in progress to "reword" the CDA so that it takes away just as much freedom but doesn't hit the federal judicial hot buttons. Seems outrageous? The First Amendment covers everything. Presently. transmitting Nobel's (the guy who funded the Prize) formula for explosives is being watched by our "masters". Some of us collect computers that may have been in government hands before the general policy of "rip out the hard disk and hit it with the chainsaw" came into effect. Other hobbies have been crippled by the government -- remember guns (my next love after computers as computers are my next love after science fiction)? Oh, it's platonic. -- Ward Griffiths Dylan: How many years must some people exist, before they're allowed to be free? WDG3rd: If they "must" exist until they're "allowed", they'll never be free.