In a recent Admins posting it was mentioned that the brackets could be omitted round male, female, etc. There is no such exception to TWYS in Submission Formats <http://www.freebmd.org.uk/Format.shtml> although there is code to handle it. Can anyone clarify what the situation is please? Barrie --Certified Virus Free by 4SecureMail.com ICSA-Certified Scanner--