I somewhat agree with Brian about that :-), but I was reading recently about proposals for stopping spam and one seems to be to force everyone to use and cooperate with such like call-back approval to be able to email. So I figured I'd post and maybe get some sample of local opinions. I should have used the [OFF] though, certainly, for which I apologize. On Sat, 8 May 2004, Brian Pearce wrote: . . . > not directed at you), it's much more irritating to have to read the > comments *about* these messages than to have to filter the messages . . .