I am completely convinced that abuse@ in most big providers is a black hole with an autoresponder hung off it, and nothing ever gets done with complaints. NO HUMAN ever sees them, and even if they did, most of the humans at these outfits wouldn't recognize a Received: header if it bit them in the ass. I invite and welcome anyone from the "big boyz" I named in the original question -- verizon, comcast, roadrunner, charter, bellsouth/SBC, and now Google -- *especially* Gmail, given that counterproductive "privacy" policy we noted -- to inform me otherwise. _H*