Thank you to the kind individual who pointed out to me that the two postings I made to the list on Friday 12 April arrived in an unreadable form. I have done some initial investigation into causes and offer the following: Because we work in a very mixed environment, I was using a different email client (Foxmail v4.0 running on M$ Windows) from usual (Kmail 1.1.61 running on SuSE Linux). That client encodes all outward mail using Base64 encoding - which seems to have been what caused the problem. However, using all the email clients I can lay my hands on, I have not yet found another one that fails to read my postings. To help in my investigations (most of which are being carried out off-list) I should be glad to receive at the following email address aray@computerpark.co.uk blank emails with "Unreadable" as the subject, from anyone who could not decipher my Friday postings. (If I get a large number, then I'll re-post the original nessages from my normal mailer.) Please note: I wish to avoid flooding the list with investigation of this issue, but I *will* post a conclusion if I manage to reach one!!! Andrew -- Email:aray@computerpark.co.uk