Yes, I believe the concept to be a good one. Take the current problem of probable war with Iraq. I'm seventy now and have studied the news - later known as "the media" all my reading life. I'm also a rabid internet user from the beginning. For example, I know more about the Iraq problem from multiple points of view than I ever would have gained from either the print or television media. We simply could not do this in the past. All of us were subject usually to manufactured propaganda from one side or the other. Black or white had been the order of the day - until the Internet Government should realise the value of wide and open discussion where all sides should be considered. That time should be a given and would allow greater diplomatic flexibility than we now see in the present Iraq-USA debacle. The very possiblity that international problems may be aired on the net and not carried on behind closed doors among a few elites is a very encouraging one. Jem