Aleem wrote: > > It depends what the data is. Explain in more detail please. > > That data in this case would be the contents of the directory or part of > it, like the web design category under yahoo for a specific region and > any other directory listing for that example. That would be not kosher to my way of thinking. Here's the web dev area for Chicago, Illinois USA: http://dir.yahoo.com/Regional/U_S__States/Illinois/Cities/Chicago/Business_and_Shopping/Business_to_Business/Communications_and_Networking/Internet_and_World_Wide_Web/Web_Site_Designers/ See that: "Copyright © 2001 Yahoo! Inc. All Rights Reserved." If you want a directory, you should look at DMOZ - which is open source: http://dmoz.org/ -- you can read how you may and may not use the data here: http://dmoz.org/license.html HTH, Joe -- Joe Crawford, web journeyman, San Diego CA USA ====================== http://artlung.com ====================== http://artlung.com/blog ============********** http://websandiego.org ============**********