> I'm not sure how much longer we should be carrying on with this 
techobabble
 > on the Forum, ......
 >
 > Heather's email was not "cured" alas, but had all the old garbage 
characters.

As probably the only working software engineer (MS Computer Science, 
FWIW) on the list, I feel obliged to offer an opinion.

The reality is that we live in an HTML world - the World Wide Web is 
largely based on it. Our listserv is old technology that does not 
support HTML. No one's email was 'cured', rather some worked around the 
existing problem. It may be time to archive the listserv and move to 
other (free) technologies, such as yahoogroups or googlegroups, that 
understand html.

To keep this Twain relevant - I've temporarily  put volume 2 of the 
autobiography aside and have gone back to the first hundred pages or so 
of "Life on the Mississippi" (Oxfford). I can't re-read that enough. :-)

regards,
Tony Verhulst