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Further on the subject of privacy -- The PARKINSN listserv all by itself, without web access, is NOT secure for personal and sensitive information. I am unaware of any screening of subscribers who join the list -- any eavesdropper, detective, blackmailer, serial killer, ambulance chasing lawyer, IRS representative, salesperson, hooker, etc. may join. We do not know who all the 1600+ subscribers are and what they might do with what we post here. So -- does anyone know of any real incidents of malicious use of PARKINSN info? The absence of any such incidents increases our confidence, although the possibility is always there. You have to weigh the risks vs. the benefits in deciding what to reveal. I do not know whether web access will really change anything in this respect. There is already so much personal info from personal internet web pages that there may be safety in just being among the growing glut of data. However, Linda is correct in that we should have been told of this in advance and given a choice. Ideally there ought to be a way to specify in a message to PARKINSN whether it should also go to the web and/or to the archives. There is a way to remove messages from the archives, but it is a pain if you want to do this often. Thanks, Ivan, for raising the question. Phil Tompkins Hoboken NJ age 61/dx 1990