In a message dated 08/30/2000 9:59:33 AM Eastern Daylight Time, rwjustus@uswest.net writes: << Ray Justus >> Hi Ray, This is the first time I have heard an explanation of why these HTML tags change, so it is all news to me. I had no idea why they do not get through correctly to some users of the mail list. Any attempt I have made to find out why has not met with success. I thank you for the clear answer and I would have appreciated it even more had you informed me directly. I am a little hurt that you would write a note of that kind directed at me to my mail list. I don't expect my guests to all like me or all the things I do for them, but I do expect all of them who use my resources to try to be as helpful to me as they can. It is called reciprocity. Thanks for the explanation, and now that I understand it, I am in a better position to do something about it. OK I just tried it and there is no way, even by typing out or cutting and pasting an http address that AOL is NOT going to convert it to HTML. That is what it does. Any comments or suggestions on this may be sent to me personally and not to the mail list. Joyce M. Tice http://<A HREF="http://www.rootsweb.com/~srgp/jmtindex.htm">ww w.rootsweb.com/~srgp/jmtindex.htm</A>