Mr. May: > >The author also mentions that consumers dislike (so?) tracking of >their purchases...and then in the next paragraphs cites the >Firestone tire recall as an example of better policy than most Web >sites have (or something like this...I re-read his analogy several >times and still wasn't sure what his claim was). But I took that statement to mean that if Firestone exercised the same level of diligence in the engineering of their tires that most web sites used, they would be recalling a *LOT* more tires, enough to make the current recall a drop in the bucket. -- A quote from Petro's Archives: ********************************************** "Despite almost every experience I've ever had with federal authority, I keep imagining its competence." John Perry Barlow