Hi all, In recent weeks I've noticed an interesting phenomenon on our large and volatile university shared drive (a "scratch" drive accessible to all faculty and students, which is wiped clean once a week). Students are using folder names and file names as public announcements. For example, a student might put a folder on the scratch drive called "Last Samurai here plz", asking any student who has the film to upload it to there for her to copy. There's one today called "plzzzz we need the new version of adobe photoshop". There's also a folder called "movies", containing (among other things) a text file with the following name: "can u put ur requests in this (Text document and not folders) cuz we dont know which folder contains something or not and have to enter each ONE.txt" People also use the drive for backing up their data for short periods (e.g. for transfer between computers); last week I found a folder on the scratch drive called "Please don't touch my documents". Of course I opened it :-) and found just one subfolder called "I'm warning you". Opening that I got a single subsubfolder called "Shame on you", and within that was one called "everything", which contained the student's data. Do institutions in other parts of the world have a drive like this? Do similar things happen there? David Palfreyman Dubai :-D