Yes, Saint, I do recognize what you say, and what you say is true. But then, so often what is voluntary and private is co-opted by the government and used for control. The book "No Place to Hide" gives a very good description of how all of the private business databases (okay, maybe not ALL, but many) have been assembled by a few huge data mining companies and after 9/11 these companies "patriotically" opened all of their data to the government even going so far as to build special facilities at private expense so that government agents could have privacy and total access to all of the data these companies have acquired. Scary stuff.

I do appreciate the idea that one may have more than one "Open I.D." and that is a good idea to keep in mind.

- NonE