Phil, you said, "If they won't make the effort to communicate in reasonable English, why should I feel any need to answer reasonably?" I agree. I mean, you shouldn't answer at all, honestly. I'm regretfully sorry that a good number of us on the G4 list aren't up to par with your English skills. While you and a few others may snub your noses at those who don't write better English, the rest of us will be taking our time out to help those same people. Hey, someone gave you a break once. It was an English teacher. Not only that, but those people who get the help they need, no matter how bad their English skills are, are probably going to remember them in a good way. There's no problem with being a smart-ass, as you called yourself, but the next time you need help I think that most of us are going to respond to you in broken English and punctuation. Eric -- Eric Buczynski emaxxx4 at warpmail.net