Good assumption as you suspect correctly. The reason for not using it is because I've already recieved 20 or so threads from this newsgroup among the others Im subscribed too. I like to keep things organized and since I never use my personal email account - it serves newsgroup purposes well. You don't have to answer the questions but I find it very odd by folks working in the industry to question my intentions. These are not 'threatining' are they? Asim Khan ----- Original Message ----- From: Bob To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2005 11:01 AM Subject: [THIN] Re: Newbie Questions hmm... I would have expected a "student" to have a university email address ;-)