Those included banner and classified advertising, links with other Web sites and requests for listing on search engines.
What's terrific about the idea is that it's not a request for lists of the greatest books about movies, but an invitation to empirical responses.
At present, for example, e-mail sent via cable modem is more strictly protected than any other communication form -- even telephone conversations -- while law enforcement requests for lists of telephone calls to or from a particular line must be granted without question by a federal court.
Thailand's political opposition accused the Thai government of failing to join Cambodia in its request for a listing and of failing to object to the map, which was based on one drawn up by the French in 1907.
We noted that in at least one instance, the authors' request to list a descriptive title for their response was denied by the journal editor.
The magistrates now have no authority to question the request for such lists, which are frequently used by the authorities.
This month on her blog, a request for a list of her top 50 books led to a meditation on the books that had failed to change her.
The Guardian first made what it believed was a routine request for the list in April 2001, but No 10 refused to hand it over.
Last month, the office of the district attorney, Charles J. Hynes, formally rejected a request for a list of those cases, involving some 50 convictions in the 1980s and 1990s, that had been made by a reporter for The New York Times.
The discussion was sparked by the subcommittee's request for a list of the property owners in the proposed district who had been contacted and how they felt about the designation.
NIH's request for proposals lists examples ranging from new clinical trial designs to tools for detecting microbial contamination in products.
