Walter-

> It's true that this *CAN* be slow, but that's the problem of the users, He/she either get's it slow or not at all.

I must say that this kind of expressed attitude towards users really raises my hackles. I have to assume you don't mean to be so cavelier and that it's just the inadequacies of this medium.

There are most certainly ways to give this functionality to users in a functional form. It takes more coding, that's for sure. SET FILTER is only useful from a programmers POV since it's so easy to code. But since the programmers convenience isn't worth diddly, it's like a person being born with a tail.

Hm. Actually, I think a tail could be fairly useful and definitely cool. < s>