I'm not sure what's going on, but would the persons who are using this list -- inadvertantly, I hope -- to experiment with sending long encoded files please stop! My mailbox nearly went kaflooey with the "essay" and its return (a rather pointless exercise, I would think -- returning a 300-line message with a header saying 'I can't read this'?? ======================================================================== "Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies" --Friedrich Nietzsche =======Russell A. Potter========<[log in to unmask]>=====================