I personally don't use Outlook Express except on those rare occasions when I have to, and I'm not very familiar with it. But there are folks on this list, I believe, who for whatever reason are using it to participate. My impression (someone correct me if I'm wrong) is that when you're replying to a message using OE, OE doesn't make the text of the original available for editing -- in fact, you don't even see the original when you're composing your reply. So that raises the question, which someone more familiar with OE could usefully answer: is it somehow possible to compose more useful replies, following good quotation practice, under OE -- and if so, how. OE may be a hideous abomination, but it still behooves us to assist OE users, who may have no choice in the matter, in participating usefully on this list. Paul Abrahams