Children, aren't we making too much of this? Like others, I had to delete unread the 297k file from Mr. Stoneking (but was grateful for his subsequent sending of a url for it) and can understand DP's momentary anguish. It's basic e-mail practice not to send files this size unsolicited, or to whole lists. But it's also easy to delete big unuseable files - so no real trouble there. I also deleted the message from our local mailman tut-tutting about the size of my inbox. Now I'm going to keep that url for future reference, and delete the *ten* other messages spawned by this subject (eleven including this one), none of them significantly to do with the subject of this list, and sit back and wait for something more Poundian... Richard Caddel Durham