Computer access issues are especially valid for government employees. Technically (although not in reality), anything I do on my machine is government property and should be available to any other government employee, especially since my branch of the federal government (National Archives) saves information and provides it to the public and government. The National Archives recently even went through a big battle about whether or not saving e-mail is necessary. I remember some movie with Harrison Ford, in which there was an evil government employee who was plotting something on his workplace computer. When they found it on there he screamed that he'd sue because they'd looked in his personal files. Nope. It be government property, buddy, and anything on it. So. The moral of the story: don't plot against the government on a government PC or keep anything on any workplace PC stuff you'd be embarrassed to have your mother see. Christine Mouw Assistant Curator Herbert Hoover Presidential Library-Museum West Branch, Iowa 52358 [log in to unmask]