Hi All, I've been on this list since 2005 and have always wondered why none of my (few) post have had responses. Were the questions I was asking really that misguided / boring / obvious? As I've got more and more familiar with Ruby I've also posted solutions and comments to already present threads (again never with any response, reference or comment). I've just realised that a combination of changing my "from:" in gmail to be the same as my "reply-to:" a long while ago and some degree of overactivity of the gmail spam filters means that none of my posts have ever made it to the list and I've never seen the response from ruby-talk-admin saying that I'm not subscribed... I am _officially_ an arse... haha! So, expect a couple of posts from me today... :-) Cheers SM -- Simon Mullis _________________ simon / mullis.co.uk