> what companies like buying are big subscriber lists (in blocks of tens of > thousands of names at a time), or other sets of personal information that > correlates names and addresses with some type of purchasing behavior and > profile Ah. Like with PayPal. ;-). Cheers, RAH -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'