Steven D'Aprano wrote: > Due to the vagaries of Usenet, > I never received the original piece of spam > at all
Same here. I do all of my persuing via Google Groups, and sometimes the same thing happens in a legitimate thread. I see somebody responding as the fist message in the thread, but I never see the OP. Odd. rd -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list