Good morning: I am a rank newbie owner of a Spanish-language list (FACESP-L out of [log in to unmask]) who spends half his life lately with one hand on the keyboard and the other on the Listserv manual. I cannot find the answer to this problem, however. There has been a fair-sized conflict on the list lately between the Spanish-language purists that see my insistence upon the elimination of the use of non-ASCII symbols (accents and puntuation such as á, é, í, ó, ú, ü, ñ, ¿, ¡) as a subversive attempt at cultural hegemony. I maintain that it is a pragmatic concession to those that can't read those symbols and get a mess of other stuff instead of the accented letter. My question is where is the problem? Does it lay in the e-mail software (as some insist) or in the keyboard programming (as others insist) or in the server capabilities (as I have been led to believe). Thanks for any light you can shed on this and thanks a million for all the help I have received through this list. Best wishes, Gil ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ FUNDACION NEO-HUMANISTA - DR. GILBERT BRENSON LAZAN, DIR. EJEC. Consultores y Formadores en Facilitacion de Procesos Sinergicos de Desarrollo y Apendizaje Grupal, Organizacional y Comunitario Apartado Aereo 50717 - Santafe de Bogota, Colombia TEL: +571-217-0985 FAX: +571-345-2072 e-mail: [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask] FORO ELECTRONICO FACESP-L: [log in to unmask] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~