'Silicon Snake Oil' is correct - I'd be interested in seeing if Stoll is still of the same opinion. It was a real departure from his prior work (Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage), and reads more like Nicholson Baker's 'Doublefold' - a raging and not always accurate opinion piece full of bias. There's no question that I myself am biased in making this comment, because he took out after librarians in one chapter. It is not a scholarly work, though it is worth reading, given his arpanet background. You might want to check out his 1999 book, 'High-Tech Heretic: Why Computers Don't Belong in the Classroom and Other Reflections by a Computer Contrarian', as well (again, I was not impressed, but then we know about my own bias). He has apparently continued to criticise the internet, because a cursory amazon search shows a 2002 title, 'Logout', which I've never heard of. He's been cited tons, so it might help to look at ISI. Carol Perryman PhD student School of Information & Library Science UNC-Chapel Hill ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other? - Mary Ann Evans, as George Elliot