Just as you may have already surmised, Barb, the MAIL DAEMON is a thinly disguised version of the MALE DEMON! He has big ugly horns which make holes in the phone lines and destroy the drives in the servers, and cause e-mail to be lost in cyberspace. Word has it, he is a disgruntled former employee of Microsoft! As a semi-gruntled former employee of MS, you should understand his plight! (running like h*ll, towing my modem and CPU out of harm's way) Ken B