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>Almost all database
>companies put their subscribers through rigourous pre-screening and WILL
>NOT in any
>shape or form provide the information to the general public!

Unfortunately, this is wrong.  I have 15 years' experience
with fee-based online databases (Dialog, Nexis, Lexis, etc.).
With the exception of Lexis and DROLS (Defense Research Online
Service) **anyone** can subscribe to these "services" if they care
to pay the fees.  There is NO screening procedure at ALL.  Startup
fees are minimal (<$100), if any.

A user of Nexis has access to many, if not most, of the databases
offered in Lexis -- where P-Trak is found.  Anyone can wander into
a public library in the mid-size city where I live and request
a database search of any database in Dialog or Nexis for free.
Although I haven't tried this, I would also imagine that any "clean-
cut" looking person could also get access to Westlaw and Lexis
at our local university law library.  If not directly, then from
the reference librarian.  Lexis and Westlaw databases are the
backbone of their automated collection.  Law libraries not having
this available would threaten the accreditation of the school.

Also (and I've mentioned this before), law students are given
FREE full access to Nexis-Lexis, and Westlaw.  They are NOT
screened. 

Oh, and speaking of stalkers, serial killer Ted Bundy (who 
was ultimately executed in Florida) was a law student for a
time at this university law school.  

E.V. Noel
noel@xmission.com