Keeping track of merely who has my credit card number would be the Twelve Labours of Hercules for me: I am no newbie; my 1st email address dates back to 1979 (NO typo!) and my 1st Web broser to 1991. Moreover most of the sites using secure payment pretend (wrongly? I cannot check) that they do NOT keep your credit card #.

I have participated in countless list and forums (or should it be fora? Johnstone says ‘When you go on a picnic you do not carry thermoi for keeping warm your tea’) since that time and they all have at least my email address. As for snail mail addresses I am really too old to even think of doing it.

I keep website registrations, login/pwd and other such items in WebConfidential www.web-confidential.com since longer than I can remember. If I were a recently-hatched newbie I might consider using iData2 a simple but clever database which has many other uses, without the complication of say FileMaker or even AppleWorks (it functions on my box but I suppose it’s dead) or worse 4th Dimension.

I certianly do not recommend using a spreadsheet as a database. It’s not made for that function and as soon as you have items that fill more than one screenful it gets out of hand. Moreover with iData2 you can also have a Freeform base, ie with no fields at all.