Well, if that piece about Microsoft that has caused such a strong defensive response from one lister here is indeed a hoax, it has sure fooled the technology columnists at The New York Times. Check out their technology update supplement for Thursday, July 4, 2002. If you have a hard time or no time for directly checking out the New York Times' website, just send an email to Will Smith at: [log in to unmask] and ask him to put you on his distribution list for the New York Times Technology Update, which he sends out weekly, as a plain text file which is the body of the email message. In this week's distribution, it was the second article, after a nice one that included a review of half a dozen or so of the latest crop of new wireless headphones. Reply to: [log in to unmask] Brent Reynolds, Atlanta, GA USA Relativity is a hoax, as you'll find out last week. Net-Tamer V 1.13 Beta - Registered VICUG-L is the Visually Impaired Computer User Group List. To join or leave the list, send a message to [log in to unmask] In the body of the message, simply type "subscribe vicug-l" or "unsubscribe vicug-l" without the quotations. VICUG-L is archived on the World Wide Web at http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/vicug-l.html