Occasionally an austechwriter message is garbled in transit and appears as a block of hex characters. Like the Fremantle Dockers' patches of winning form, these occurrences are rare, happen without warning, and depart without explanation. Hedley tried posting a message twice today, then forwarded it to me and I tried posting it. In all cases it was garbled when it came back from the list. I noticed that Hedley's message to me, which didn't go via the list and came through fine, contained some high-ASCII characters--ellipses and a dash. I took these out and sent the message to the list again to see if that fixes the problem. Hedley's mentioning that he uses Lotus Notes made me smell a wumpus; I've had this hex problem occasionally and I use Notes too... I wonder if anyone else has experienced this and uses Notes? I suspect it's a conflict that happens when the Ecartis list software used by Freelists uses comes across a message containing high characters that was sent from a Notes mail client. So apologies for all the garbled messages today, but I hope it takes us closer to solving the problem. Regards Stuart ************************************************** To post a message to austechwriter, send the message to austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx To subscribe to austechwriter, send a message to austechwriter-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "subscribe" in the Subject field. To unsubscribe, send a message to austechwriter-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe" in the Subject field. To search the austechwriter archives, go to www.freelists.org/archives/austechwriter To contact the list administrator, send a message to austechwriter-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx **************************************************