Personally, I think it's working progress,,, I see interesting topics everyday.. But I remember the first week I joined the list and had a problem with Unix.. I was puzzled as to why everytime I rebooted my X8086 it lost the ip address. I received the right answer in a matter of hours- and I felt at home. Last month in a similar list at work, a guy from our continent asked an honest question... I was not impressed by the response from employees in other continents, instead of answering, they asked him questions like he dint know what he was doing e.g 'Why would you want to do that?' I hope the guys asking for help or questions nowadays are not treated with the same response that make them shy away from the skunk list. W/regards Snn