More "slow news day, BBC web-news monkeys are bored" type flat phone fun. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_2006000/2006407.stm Marginally related, but paper thin voice activated bugging devices using the phone network to call remote voice recorders are surely not far away. One could possibly even send them as part of a letter - and surreptitiously listen in on the recipients immediate response.... NickReceived on Sun May 26 14:39:43 2002