First, my admiration goes to the tireless Sarasvati for endeavoring to make improvements and having the patience to listen to all these whines. Thank you Sarasvati! Having paved the way, I now begin to whine myself. I agree with those that think [Unicode] on the subject is a waste of precious space. My suggestion is we replace "Unicode" with the BOM non-character. ;-) Second, where I have worked with lists that had the "your clipping is too big" detector, it was very disruptive of communications. You were never quite sure if your mail was going to get out and it sometimes forced needless restructuring. And some people cleverly opted not to use indications of clipping (no angle brackets etc. in the first column), making the thread hard to understand. I would rather we didn't. Cheers, tex -- According to Murphy, nothing goes according to Hoyle. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tex Texin Director, International Business mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +1-781-280-4271 Fax:+1-781-280-4655 Progress Software Corp. 14 Oak Park, Bedford, MA 01730 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sign up now for PROGRESS Worldwide Exchange June 3-7, 2001, Washington DC. http://www.progress.com/exchange