Better still were the 'early' days when all the advertising came from 'known' advert sites - that way you could just put an entry in your hosts file (be it Unix, NT, Win95 or whatever) to redirect the 'known' sitename to your local machine. A 'broken link' image is far more pleasing than an advert IMHO :) (actually Altavista still lets you do this - most sites seem to store the adverts locally these days though and access them via CGI) anyway, enough of this off-topic stuff!! Jules