The latest situation is this: At work (Novell LAN and WWW access is through a proxy), with Netscape and with IE, sending a message to a trhead, and starting a new thread, stall and time out. But sending emailsto JeffH through Renderosity went through as normal. If this message gets in, then sending a message via IE via my dialup line st home, works. Is there any way that my department's postmaster@ at work could have set his server to make sending a message to Renderosity stall like that? Today at work I thoroughly wiped and nuked out my Netscape 4 installation and installed Netscape 4.7 instead, but the Renderosity message-sending bug persisted.