You make excellent points, Guru. Excellent points indeed -- I hadn't considered that. Thank you :)I suppose I let the convention of encrypting your public key along with your first message influence me more than it should have. It's funny how things we don't really arrive at on our own become immutable in the mind... why not just paste the damn thing after the message anyway. I have no clue. Because I read somewhere that's not the convention.Anyway, thanks for speaking up and pointing out my mistake. I tend to think that if/once I'm caught in possession of something, nobody's going to care what I said to whom. They've got their charge and whether I wrote a letter a month ago to some random person who knows where doesn't have any bearing on that.But you're absolutely right, absolutely right -- no need to incriminate myself or be careless for no good reason. :)