This list is a constant rolling education to me. Thanks for this thumbnail history, Eric: I was here for most of it, but didn't understand at the time. > Setting aside philosophical or religious considerations, trying to > make subscribers not use QP encoding is a lost cause. It would have to > be a very small list of reasonably technical people, and there would > still be cases where the messages MUST be encoded. . . . [snip] Clear, informative, and amusing too. -- Russ Russell Hunt Department of English St. Thomas University http://www.stu.ca/~hunt/