You may want to send an e-mail to the FCC voicing objection to a proposal allowing local phone companies to impose a per minute charge for the use of the internet and e-mail. Seems to me they are just trying to cash in on a good thing. They are already paid for the use of the phone line. This proposal has apparently not been made public but the word is spreading. The FCC e-mail address: isp@fcc.gov Cheryl Schaefer schaefer @epix.net Zone 5 in the fabulous Finger Lakes of NY