I was wondering if there was any way of keeping a record of individual use of the Mudcat, and sending out a electronic reminder after a hundred or 5 hundred or whatever uses -- that you have used it X times, and wouldn't you like to keep using it? Maybe even have a voluntary fee total added -- a cent a hit, for example, or more. Some of these commercial sites must keep a record of who uses it -- there must be a software inventor who could rig up a system for totting up names, and uses, and triggering an e-mail gentle reminder about how much one comes on to this site. I appreciate that this is an invasion of privacy, but maybe it could be done automatically in some way that wasn't openly easy to manipulate for extra junk mail, selling subscription lists, etc. This is just a thought, as I am a software illiterate, and am also very wary of computer tracking. But gentle hints do work.

Yours, Peter T.