On Feb 3, 8:10, John Lawson wrote: [...] I was about to "second" Allison, but I'll "third" John instead since he beat me to it :-) I don't mind the bandwidth (though I might if HTML became more common), it's just that it's a nuisance to read HTML (or anything with "alternate-part"s) in another window, so I just skip over it with the delete key. And my non-Microsoft mailers on no-M$ OSs don't handle some of their more execrable alternatives anyway. As far as I'm concerned, email is an ASCII (or perhaps ISO-8859-X) medium. -- Pete Peter Turnbull Dept. of Computer Science University of York