Congratulations, Tom! You are one of the courageous ones who (like me) detest the lack of self-education at least to some small degree before simply asking for the answer. The SI List lately has been fraught with "brain pickers," many from overseas who are taking jobs away from "locals". Helping one to understand difficult subject matter is one thing, and is admirably highlighted by the heated/beneficial discussions for which this reflector is known. However, I infer from the slew of very general and basic questions seen over the past several months (particularly for some reason by Hotmail subscribers) that ill-trained and/or lazy designers are looking to short-cut their own education and appear to become competitive through the years of education of others. I suggest we all encourge healthy interchanges, but not "give away the store." (And it was good to meet you in person at DeisgnCon 2004.) Michael L. Conn Owner/Principal Consultant Mikon Consulting *** Serving Your Needs with Technical Excellence *** ------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from si-list: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field or to administer your membership from a web page, go to: //www.freelists.org/webpage/si-list For help: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'help' in the Subject field List technical documents are available at: http://www.si-list.org List archives are viewable at: //www.freelists.org/archives/si-list or at our remote archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/si-list/messages Old (prior to June 6, 2001) list archives are viewable at: http://www.qsl.net/wb6tpu