I moved mail, storing messages elsewhere, checked this and checked that, and still got REBOOTED [automatically this time] when the index tried to make itself for InBox. [I'd already eliminated any chance of virus being a problem, and run Norton Speed Disk on all appropriate drives.] So then I decided to start on individual pieces of mail, the ones last downloaded [4 of them], to see if just maybe one of them was the causative agent. And I found it. A DozerwareDummy had sent out a notice to his mailing list that he'd sent them yet another virus without realizing he even had it. [WinderzWonderz ... more dollars than sense!] Since the dear thing has no conception of how to set up a mailing list, and his ISP has not bothered to set up *any* sort of anti-spam block that stops RECPT TO after a hundred or two messages, he sent the mail TO 27K worth of e-mail addresses ... 290 lines worth, 2-3-4 edresses per line! My e-dress was somewhere in the middle of that, somewhere. I don't know if the problem was in trying to FIND my e-dress in that mess ... OR if it lies in the fact that Arachne would try to save all of those half-a-thousand e-dresses as the variable $Cc ... But it is obvious that there is an "open-end" of some sort in the sorting or storing code. A block needs to be set in so "if X>=Y STOP!!!!!!!" stops the crashing [hey, I write crummy pseudocode but you get the idea, right?] Now excuse me, please, while I go clean up the dupe reconfiguration over in v1.66 .... l.d. -- Arachne V1.70;rev.3, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/