"All these sock puppets and secret identities are making me paranoid. Now I'm starting to wonder if Acadia is Ron. :-/" You know, I was thinking the same thing :) hauksdottir, Cooler is working on a paper where he supposes that gaining access to a site one has been banned from is tantamount to trespassing. I don't know all the details, he could explain much better than I. It is an interesting concept. Websites are personal property. By using a web site you have been banned from, your are using bandwidth and services you are not entitled to.