Lots of reasons: JavaScript, Banner Ads, THIS REALLY WORKED FOR ME!!!!, Registration Required, AOL, Microsoft, "You are not using a frames-enabled browser," "Your browser does not support cookies," "These documents are only available in MS Word format," "This page is best viewed in 800x600 resolution with internet explorer 4.0 or greater..." Need I say more? Internet is starting to really suck. Maybe we can all do better out of our own basements. UUCP certainly lowers the bar for entry and maintenance of a useable node to the point where anyone can grab a peesee out of the dumpster and plug in. (Provided that they know at least one person who is already connected...) Everybody has an even chance to participate and contribute. Even those of us who like to use computers that wouldn't generally use TCP. :) A 20 or 30 node UUCP network could probably hold all of the useful information I've seen on the internet in the last three years. As long as the network remains a manageable size, you could probably count on government to not get involved much, and the type of business that caused so much trouble on the internet wouldn't be interested. There's also the fact that the small level of knowledge required to set up a node, or even connect to one would be sufficient to weed out utter idiots. This is no longer true for internet. Chris Christopher Smith, Perl Developer Amdocs - Champaign, IL /usr/bin/perl -e ' print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl Hacker.")."\x08!\n"); '