really don't think all that personal information should be available >to the public. That is specifically what ices me about the whole thing. My address and phone number are readily availalbe if only the marketers were willing to walk into one of several public institutions and look them up. But they are not even willing to do that work so I'm certainly not going to go out of the way to give them the oportuniity to piss me off. That is the same reason I wont wear clothing with logos on them. I'm not going to purchase the oportunity to be a walking billboard. We recently purchased a house and I am stunned at the freakish amount of phone calls and door visits we get from marketers, and as of yet not a one of them has had a thing worth buying! I would probably feel differently if they offered something of value. ; ) It is the same with software. You give all your personal info to a company at registration time because during install they harass you with pop up boxes begginf for you information. Then it takes a week to get an email back from them about a tech support issue. I hope you werent using that for a living! Or you pay long distance charges to wait for an hour on the phone to find out why your paid-for update software will not install. No thanks. See, I dont GET anything in return for my personal information. I feel the my money for their program is an even trade, but my personal information will cost them extra. ; )