Wow! A ghost mail! The mail is sent on Feb 18, and received on Mar 14. As John described in another mail, this one had been rejected due to size of the attached image. It seems the delay happened at pdx.freedesktop.org, as following mail head information shows. May anyone explain how did this happen, please? Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=pdx.freedesktop.org) by pdx.freedesktop.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B2Xwe-0005un-OC; Sun, 14 Mar 2004 07:54:32 -0800 Received: from nwdir2ext.netwalk.com ([216.69.192.98] helo=smtp2.netwalk.com) by pdx.freedesktop.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1AtDhB-0007fJ-EU for fontconfig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Tue, 17 Feb 2004 14:28:01 -0800 Xie Qian Open System and Chinese Information Processing Center, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 8718, Beijing 100080, CHINA ----- Original Message ----- From: "John A. Boyd Jr." <jaboydjr@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <fontconfig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 6:27 AM Subject: Re: gnome-terminal and font selection -- again > I guess I'm so frustrated by this, Brian, that I can't even > count... > > ......