I'm just editorializing here. I found the rant linked to in an=20 Elektor email newsletter ironic. An Elektor newsletter came in the mail, dated 5/31. One article is=20 titled Big Brother Tektronix is Watching You, and the rant is about a=20 Tektronix newsletter and how newsletters in general are marketing tools=20 to track surfing behavior. And how the author clicked on a Tektronix=20 newsletter link and almost immediately got a call from Tektronix, and=20 how he reacted by unsubscribing from the newsletter, and wrote the rant=20 rather than the article he intended to write. I rarely click on newsletter links, and when I do want to read=20 something, I often trim the link of all the tags that I suspect will=20 lead back to me, and try to find it from what is left. Irony reared=20 it's head when I tried to do that with the Elektor link. The link leads=20 to this: but the actual link was: No substring of the link worked, so I had to follow the full link, and=20 now, either dbaseserver.mistermail.nl can identify me as the reader, or=20 that is the actual path to the article. And why the heck Elektor=20 needs to have a 3rd party to serve their links is beyond me. Besides=20 the irony, I think it was a rather pointless rant. The author remains=20 anonymous, so the message delivered to Tektronix is that someone writing=20 for Elektor is pissed at what may have been a coincidence. Hoe W --=20 http://www.piclist.com/techref/piclist PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .