In a message dated 4/15/2006 11:32:06 AM Eastern Standard Time, pasher@ee.net writes: "Contacts" can be verbal or written :) There is an old saying in Contract Law that "a verbal contract isn't worth the paper it isn't printed on." While verbal contacts can be enforced first you have to get the parties involved to agree on what was said--and therein lies the rub. ;) Joan