You're right. The first version of EXPLODE merely ignored domain-style addresses. When I wrote a common 'best peer' routine and sticked it in EXPLODE, it automatically supported domain addresses and I didn't realize it so didn't fix the 17 chars problem... augh... NOACK: I am going to rule that NOACK means no message at all except from the server that first gets the file. All remarks, comments, flames, sensible or silly, from whomever they may come, will be ignored :-) This only applies to the NOACK behaviour topic, of course. Eric