Hi Charles, doesn't Outlook have a setting to limit downloading messages by size? I'm on dial-up, and I use this in Eudora: I set it to not download messages over 120KB, then if a message exceeds that size Eudora downloads only the headings and the first few lines of the message, and if I decide I want the file I just ask that it be downloaded on my next mailcheck. Saves me no end of time and bother. Wilson At 11:34 20/09/02 -0700, Charles R. Buchanan wrote: >You would think that it would have dawned on someone at M$ to include a > >>>>>>>washer in Outlook! :-O <shrug> Even MS Word if it is used to write >e-mail. I don't think it should it should be too hard to do! I get those >sometimes, one of my friends who had just bought a new computer one day >thought it would be great to share some mail with me. At the time I was on >dial-up. One and a half hours later, Outlook FINALLY finished. :-O There >were the jokes, with a gazillion cc:'s on it, (with the >>>>>> as you can >imagine) and quite a few movies! I quickly told this person NOT to send me >that stuff. :-( ************************************************************* You are receiving this mail because you subscribed to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or MicrosoftOffice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To send mail to the group, simply address it to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To Unsubscribe from this group, send an email to mso-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?Subject=unsubscribe Or, visit the group's homepage and use the dropdown menu. This will also allow you to change your email settings to digest or vacation (no mail). //www.freelists.org/webpage/mso To be able to use the files section for sharing files with the group, send a request to mso-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and you will be sent an invitation with instructions. Once you are a member of the files group, you can go here to upload/download files: http://www.smartgroups.com/vault/msofiles *************************************************************