----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob Maxey" file share vs tape as gift : >>>Newsgroups are a separate entity on the internet. Try Googling : newsgroups.>>> : It is interesting to note how many daily users of the net do not know that newsgroups exist. They are a facinating place to visit. and a marvelour resource for things that never make it to the net. Someone who's mother suffered a rare and chronic disease was given my name by someone else who knew I was pretty good at finding things. HSe'd searched the web, her doctors had searched the web - all to no avail. A quick hunt through the newsgroups and we had a doctors name and a week later, he'd been contacted and posted the info needed to the patients doctor! Amazing as you say that few know of it, even though it predates the web :) k