mateo_sancarlos, Maybe you can answer this... about half my spam lately seems to be garbage characters: every letter has some diacritic mark above it. I use a webmail reader (text) and assume that this is from Russian porn sites wanting to hook up long distance charges or something equally exotic. I wonder though, if these are foreign (Russian, Chinese, Swahili) charcters not getting translated into the Roman alphabet, or is there some redirection code involved? I peeked at a couple via "view source" and saw what might have been phone numbers, but I'm not curious enough to check them via an html reader. Carolly