I'm using a version of ELM which claims to be MIME-compliant and usually is, but all I saw in Peter Cassidy's message was a collection of random-looking extended-ASCII characters. Usually when something arrives in a locally- unsupported MIME format (like Amanda's GIF a while back), I just get an "unrecognized format" error message. I didn't see any error messages at all this time, just a meaningless jumble of characters (different, incidentally, from the PGP-cipherptext-like characters Tim quoted).

Hey, I've figured it out!!! It's the AOL Good Times virus!!! (**WINK**) We've all been had!!! Oh, sorry, I panicked. :-) -- Brad