Well, nobody told me whether a message did or did not get through, but I'm now sure they didn't. All of the failed messages have blank lines before the :: token, which is consequently not recognized by recurse.pl. I dunno how they got in there, but I guess I should learn some perl and robustify against this -- unless somebody can think of a reason why :: needs to be able to start a message without being stripped. Damned in-band signalling... Eli ebrandt@jarthur.claremont.edu