Your description of the action of the Reply function in your last paragraph is not always true; it all depends on the mail software you are using. On one of the systems where I have an account the REPLY TEXT function works exactly as you describe; on the other it doesn't. Have you seen Terry Carroll's Copyright FAQ? It is available via anonymous FTP from CHARON.AMDAHL.COM in the directory /pub/misc.legal/Copyright-FAQ, filenames part.1 - part.6 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Judith Hopkins VOICE: (716) 645-2796 Technical Services Research and Analysis Officer Central Technical Services FAX: (716) 645-5955 Lockwood Library Building State University of New York at Buffalo BITNET: ulcjh@ubvm (OR, ubvms) Buffalo, NY 14260-2200 INTERNET: [log in to unmask] Listowner: AUTOCAT@UBVM or [log in to unmask] -------------------------------------------------------------------------