<<Okay. I've had it. The next person who posts a message about a "company located in southeastern PA" looking for "Programmer Analysts for their HP 3000 area", said company being located "Right at the foot of the Pocono Mountains", gets sent to El Paso in August without any sun screen.>> Yeah, I'm a little tired of those too. But a question comes to mind: are these being posted to hp3000-l, or are they coming in through the gateway from comp.os.hp.mpe? The header of the last one I saw looks like the latter. Which is, to me, another argument for either filtering or turning off the incoming traffic from the newsgroup. Steve