Isaac: Thanks for your comment - the main reasons I've not addressed other newsgroups is that I think a wholesale use of the bandwidth for political messages of that type is very inappropriate (while a single plug may be tolrable). Also my roots are 3k based - a fact of which I am not only unashamed, but exceedingly proud. I regard this list as the closest I have to a home constituency. Naturally if elected my views will be as global as I can make them, with partiular reference to the historical facts of, eg the RT systems, and other ideas which may hav ebeen ahead of or not in step with their time. Thanks for your comment - now get out and vote:-) Tony (PS I will *not* be using any more public space on this topic!)