I've often referred subscribers to this Web site when suggesting plain text (it's often true that they really don't know, and have no practical way of finding out, just that that _means_: mail clients so often build the bells and whistles right into the foundation that users don't know they're there). http://www.expita.com/nomime.html You can find it by searching ["plain text" / email ] in Google. It not only offers lots of specific suggestions, it has a clear explanation of why plain text in email matters. -- Russ Russell Hunt Department of English St. Thomas University http://www.stu.ca/~hunt/