For a couple of interesting articles on how UK Businesses/institutions are prepared to meet the October deadline you may wish to see the articles placed on the following sites. www.vnunet.com/News/1124750 and www.tarlolyons.co.uk/news/latest2.htm Lewis Bourne Principal Information Security Officer I.C.T. Services This e-mail contains proprietary information some of which or all of which may be legally privileged. It is for the intended recipient only. If an addressing or transmission error has misdirected the e-mail, please notify the author by replying to this email. If you are not the intended recipient you must not use, disclose, distribute, copy, print or rely on this e-mail. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ If you wish to leave this list please send the command leave data-protection to [log in to unmask] All user commands can be found at : - www.jiscmail.ac.uk/user-manual/summary-user-commands.htm all commands go to [log in to unmask] not the list please! ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^