http://www.gamasutra.com/features/20000724/pritchard_01.htm An article that may interest some of you. I only skimmed it, but it appears that Netrek never got mentioned in it even though it is one of the first (if not _the_ first) Internet games to use client binary authentication to help curb cheating. The article got a mention on slashdot, too. -- Dave Ahn | ahn at vec.wfubmc.edu | Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Try to live your life so that when you die, you will rejoice and the world will cry. -1/2 jj^2