oh I agree with you; there needs to be yin for every yang, even in programming languages ... after all, *we're* the developers, right?? sgd > -----Original Message----- > From: Anthony Baratta [mailto:Anthony@Baratta.com] > I do think its pretty stupid though to have one without the > other. The uses for > cramming info into databases using the URL encoding and > pulling out should be so > obvious.