On Fri, 11 Jun 2010, Florin Iucha wrote: > if you want to communicate, you need to send something that we can both > see... Hear, hear! Plain text really does work. Of course Micrsoft knows that communication works both ways, so they'll try to produce things for the sender that can't be read unless the receiver also has their software. Running counter to your dictum has made them billions. Mike