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Putting our messages on a web page has decreased privacy only from the point of view of convenience. As has been pointed out, everything anyone posted to PARKINSN has been accesible via Simon Coles' PARKINSN archive web page. Privacy exists only as long as anyone whom we don't want reading our stuff doesn't think to look there. What I believe will happen now is that references to PARKINSN messages on John's web page will be indexed by and retrievable via the internet seach engines such as Altavista and Lycos. This will increase general accessibility, because there is no longer the need to know about and go into the archives. I would think that privacy would be better achieved by use of a pseudonym. What bothers me more than privacy is that every stupid or hasty thing I wish I never wrote will be that much more available. Phil Tompkins Hoboken NJ age 61/dx 1990