Doug, when your dialup connection times out, do you have ICQ running?

Not on my home computer. ICQ gives me just the opposite problem -- if ICQ is running, then even if I don't want to be on the internet, it will dial in and connect me anyway. Since ICQ goes into "connect" mode by default, that means I can't "automate" it and put it in my startup menu.

I suppose I could just load ICQ whenever I load Netscape...

tanstaafl.