I was able to decode the message from "wolf" posted to Newsgroup alt.sexual.abuse.recovery and then posted here by Ed Carp, who said Here's something I found on another newsgroup. Any ideas what it is? It was a public posting... I've tried uudecoding it and playing with it, running it through uncompress, gunzip, and pgp (all with appropriate headers, of course - I'm not a total idiot!), but I can't make heads or tails out of it. Just curious if anyone found this familiar-looking... Procedure for decode is: Extract message to file xxx.asc Add -----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE----- and -----END PGP MESSAGE----- to start and end of file. Change PGP's CONFIG.TXT file to de-comment KeepBinary = on # Decrypt will not delete intermediate .pgp file verbose = on # verbose diagnostic messages [this is probably the step Ed missed] Then just run PGP against the file PGP XXX.ASC The result will be found in XXX.PGP which is now not deleted. I won't repeat the long message here. It's apparently from a fag (Wolf) who was beat up by his lover (David) whom he had arrested. Here are the first few lines: Hello friends. I hope you are all well. I am doing better today than before. I get a little more livelier every day. I am not in the mood to talk about the situation right now, though. I would like to first of all thank each an every one of you for the SCADS of mail I have recieved in response to my post about what happened last Monday night. I'm not sure how this message was produced. Maybe not by PGP. I tried reversing the encoding with pgp -a xxx.pgp, but a different encoded file is produced, which PGP decodes with no problems. -- edgar@spectrx.saigon.com (Edgar W. Swank) SPECTROX SYSTEMS +1.408.252.1005 Cupertino, Ca