Isn't banning lurkers a bit like restricting a theater to only the actors? You may feel "uncomfortable dancing around on a stage with silent gawkers", but isn't that better than a bunch of empty seats. At least they're not "BOOing". How else would I be exposed to such profoundities as "during WW2 my astigmatic grandmother was employed calibrating crosshairs on periscopes." (To which I have no real compulsion to respond.) RevRhodes