I received Kellie's message as a peculiarly Germanic looking oath (y with umlaut, followed by an Old English thorn and then a "<" sign). I have encountered this before from a colleague using Microsoft Outlook but am unsure why. I am using a very recent and popular software for my email, Netscape 4.7, and it reads most fancy things (attachments, images, html code, special fonts and colors, etc). Perhaps there is a setting on Outlook that will accomodate other readers? Karen Kellie Bradshaw wrote: > ÿþ< -- Dr. Karen Jolly Associate Professor, History University of Hawai`i at Manoa [log in to unmask] http://www2.hawaii.edu/~kjolly %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%