In a message dated 4/29/2005 9:20:14 AM Eastern Standard Time, richardpence@pipeline.com writes: It's spam. The words are not intended to make sense, they are just a decoy to try to fool spam-blocking software. Somewhere in the message there likely is a link to a site that is selling something. Richard ---- I've gotten a lot of these and as Richard notes they are merely spam. However, I've never seen a link or anything included in these strange messages that are (again as Richard notes) designed to include random words which helps them get through spam filters. My guess is that their purpose is merely to verify that your email address is valid so that the address harvester can promise all address they are selling to spammers are good ones that won't bounce. Joan