It may have just been coincidence, but just after I posted that node, my access to Perlmonks.org got locked up for 10 minutes. I was getting "waiting for perlmonks" messages, and when the page did show up, it was blank!!

It's like they sent me a message..... don't talk about their surveillance.

The first rule of the Spy club, is don't talk about Spy club. :-)