On Wed, 26 Jan 2005, Matthew Poole wrote: : Now, I'll preface this by saying that I'm almost certain it's bovine : excrement. But once you involve politicians, anything's possible. : : A friend of a friend (yeah, one of those stories) has raised with him the : suggestion that NZ has some system to petition to have someone permanently : banned from the Internet. This notional petition only requires 50 : signatures. : : Can anyone confirm such a beast? I imagine there will be peals of : laughter accompanying the reading of this e-mail, and I'll be stunned if : someone says it does actually exist, but there's no harm in asking the : group of people most likely to know. Perhaps you can ban the person from opening an account in his own name in NZ if such a silly law exists there, but he might use a fake name or open an account in another country. What's to stop him/her? scott