Well, I decided to write some perl to help out here. I grabbed Brandon's patch to give some news functionality to mutt (like the 'P' command to post news, and the ability to monify the Newsgroups: line, as well as the notion of the inews variable. I wrote some perl that does the following: spools articles from subscribed newsgroups into mbox folders (and by necessity manages .newsrc files), and posts news as a drop-in substitute for inews. If anyone is interested in seeing these, I'll clean the code up and post it somewhere. Let me know. -- Phil Humpherys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> DriverSoft Unix Systems Administrator Mobile: +1.801.725.3257 The more control, the more that requires control.