*** Lee, your fears are correct i think. I've just been to the e-circles site and it looks like someone's just basically signed up "logh@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU" to the e-circles group in question. *** Dunno whether to laugh at my own paranoia at thinking someone would add my address without asking, or someone else's naive stupidity at misuse of the list. Get a rope. Richard, would you follow up with e-Circles? Part of my paranoia is not dealing with sites that require things like cookies or Java/Javascript. Thanks! The_Beast