At 03:20 AM 1/11/2004 -0500, you wrote: >Afriend of mine went to one of the Westin resorts a few weeks ago. He said >they had an automated system in their rooms. Once the bottle was removed >it was >billed. At one of the Asian hotels I stayed at recently, they rubber-stamp the items so that you can't guzzle down half a dozen soft drinks and then replace them at 1/5 or 1/10 the price from outside shops. Best regards, Spehro Pefhany --"it's the network..." "The Journey is the reward" speff@interlog.com Info for manufacturers: http://www.trexon.com Embedded software/hardware/analog Info for designers: http://www.speff.com -- http://www.piclist.com hint: To leave the PICList mailto:piclist-unsubscribe-request@mitvma.mit.edu