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You're welcome :)

An ex gf of mine is from LA and used to be addicted to dope, among other drugs. She and a number of my friends from the area joined Narcotics Anonymous (http://www.na.org/) who have support groups and meetings all over the World as well as in SoCal. Contacting them may be a good idea as they are pretty friendly and provide a comprehensive peer based support structure. Mark

Hopefully it will also print out a map and give GPS positioning for it, as well :-D

User Agent spoofing is a legitimate process and I cannot imagine it being illegal at all. User Name spoofing, is possibly another matter. All he is trying to do is make the receiving server handle his response in a known manner. This is necessary because there are some morons out there don't learn what they're doing, or make any attempt to accomodate any web browsers other than IE. To make sure that their precious work of 'art' is seen 'properly' they may refuse to serve pages to any client that doesn't identify itself as IE. being able to do this is getting even more important with the advent of mobile browsing and it is something that most Opera and Netscape users have done for years. Now, opening the SMTP port on a mail server and pretending to be someone else when sending mails or spam is another matter entirely and in many juristictions is at least frowned upon if not outright illegal. The two things are completely different.