From: "Antonio Carlini" <a.carlini(a)ntlworld.com> They have limited resources so obviously they cannot implement everything over night. Stage one blocks and monitors people with funny foreign names ... you're probably stage two (that's people who miss smileys and so can't be that suspicious :-)). FWIW If I log on to one of the work machines that lives in the US I can see the auction from there too - so maybe Paul really is being watched :-) Antonio -- --------------- Antonio Carlini arcarlini(a)iee.org