E mail has been a great boon to communication - but is also open to misinterpretation, or potential offence, without a physical or visual presence or body language to accurately reflect the sender's intended meaning. As an ex Brit, raised on a diet of tongue-in-cheek Goon/Pythonesque humour, I find it necessary to garnish my E-mails with lot's of :-) emoticons to more clearly convey my thoughts, and avoid giving unintended offence. Users of hotmail, iChat(?) and similar, have access to the more expressive (HTML based ?) visual graphics of yellow smilies etc. versus keyboard versions like :0( :-) !!!! I once contacted a website provider of Emoticons to be told they aren't available for the Mac Users Does anyone know of any Mac version of these Smiley Emoticons which seem to be only available for PCs ? Then , as they say Down Under , I 'd have "no worries!" about folks misconstruing my email messages ! :-) Good on yer ! :-) Cheers Ilbert And a final thought? The more you know........the less you need ! Australian Aboriginal saying - _________________________________________________ For information concerning the MUGLO List just click on http://muglo.on.ca/pages/members.html#Joinmuglo Don't forget to periodically check our web site at: http://muglo.on.ca/