And as some of you have stated, the market these days is MUCH more difficult than it was a few years ago. I have been waiting to observe if anyone else mentioned the following two points: When you consider that probably every other response has used more bytes than the original request (including this one - and there have been at least 20), it certainly seems reasonable to have sent the request. In addition, no links were activated when the body of the e-mail was displayed. On the rare occasions I receive spam these days, most of the time a link attempts to activate itself - which is almost always impossible since I try to remember to disconnect the cable to the router before I start to read any e-mail. If such a link had been included, that would have been unacceptable!!!!! Jerome Fine