Dan,
 
the problem was that, although Mr Stoneking seemed to having mailed his play as
an attachment, it didn't arrive here as an attachment. Attachements usually are
no problem to read. If an attachement text is part of the eMail proper, however,
I don't know what to do with the loads of MIME-formatted ASCII's. That was the
reason why, after having asked Billy to mail me the play, I had to ask him a
second time. It was the same: It didn't arrive here as an attachment but as
the garbage part of his eMail. So I had wasted a good online half hour for
NOTHING [& I have to pay my bills myself; my PC stands in my office at home, not
in a university].
 
Which I see as more or less MY problem & not Billy's. Obviously I cannot blame
HIM for having got garbage in my PC instead of a play on EP. Mr Stoneking, I'd
venture to say without having "seen" the play, is a Poundian; thus he belongs in
the family and thus his play(s) deserve(s) our attention and not our disapproval,
no matter how new or old, how fast or slow our modems are. Le style c'est
homme.
 
alex