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Joe and Charlie, Your comments on the accuracy and reliability of web sourced information are well made. Information sourced from other media is subject to the same cautions, but I admit it is easier to determine the status of a book or magazine/journal. I have strong reservations about anything I read in the press. Through the years there have been 4 or 5 occassions when events of which I have detailed first hand knowledge have featured in the news. On each occasion the facts have been wrongly reported. On one occasion (admittedly a 'human interest' story) the only points where the story and the facts touched were the name of the venue, the time of the event and the accompanying photograph. The rest of the story was pure fiction. I wish it had been true, it was a damn sight more interesting than what actually happened. It has long been my practice on encountering a new reference source (eg an encyclopedia, on-line or otherwise) to assess its reliability by looking up something I already know about. It is frightning how few pass even so simple a test. If life is indeed a journey, than every few hundred metres we need to put up a "Proceed with Caution" sign. Dennis. ++++++++++++++++++++ Dennis Greene 47/10 [log in to unmask] http://members.networx.net.au/~dennisg/ ++++++++++++++++++++