Well... Go read "why-tap.txt". More or less the same arguments apply for the IDENT protocol. :-) I'm not sure the "rfc931-users" mailing list is alive anymore though. I've created a new mailing list "ident-users@lysator.liu.se" that you may wish to join instead. Send email to "ident-users-request@lysator.liu.se" to join/leave that list. /Peter Eriksson <pen@lysator.liu.se>, 3 Nov 1993