In a message dated 11/28/01 5:23:55 PM Central Standard Time, sniemi@pacifier.com writes: << We all make mistakes. Some BIG ones and some little "boo boo's", especially when we first start out. Don't let this deter you on your research. Gen is suppose to be fun, not life and death. It would have been a nice gesture to help you, rather then chastise you. Shirley This is one of the problems with the net. People put their own spin on what someone else meant. I was not chastising anyone, I was pointing out things I saw to help the person by bringing them to her attention. Another lesson we could all learn from this is unless someone states they are angry, chastising, belittling, etc., maybe we should take the words verbatim and forget to put our own feelings into them because they might not be feeling the same way we do. Annie in Minnesota