Ken asked: "Am I being too paranoid here?" Paranoid about what, the Contest or the U.S. election? As an interested observer of the latter, I think that most of the froth is being whipped up by CNN and the rest of the media. Your country will survive just fine, as will the office of President. As for the Contest, the "People's Chioce" award is a way for us to allow visitors to the site to participate in the event even if they didn't enter an aquascape. If anyone _dares_ to "campaign" on the APD or USENET aquaria newsgroups, you can be sure that someone here will notice it and take whatever steps are felt necessary to counter it. However, I'm with Erik in giving people the benefit of the doubt and trusting in their sense of fair play. We didn't receive a host of "faked" or artificially altered/enhanced entries, so I don't think that we'll get hoodwinked on the People's Choice award. James ------------------ To unsubscribe from this list, e-mail majordomo@thekrib.com with "unsubscribe aga-contest" in the body of the message. To subscribe to the digest version, add "subscribe aga-contest-digest" in the same message. Old messages are available at http://lists.thekrib.com/aga-contest When asked, log in as username is "aga-contest", and password "lookie-loo".