Friends, Jonathan Sterne has expressed many of my feelings about the idea of community. When I see attempts to create community on the Internet, I see activism. And with activism comes attempts to involve me in activities that are usually on someone else's agenda. All of us have roles that we play in our families, neighborhoods, professional lives and, yes, even in our own minds. Perhaps it is best for everyone to create their personal network of communities to serve the roles we play, or wish to play. The Internet excels at fostering such communities, and also quickly weeds out those attempts to create communities for which no critical mass exists. -- Charlie Hendricksen veritas@u.washington.edu "Information technology structures human relationships." "Models relate concepts."