Hi chuck, months ago you started a thread about ari's yahoo messenger client. I found an interesting thing out about it just now while fidling around with it. if you don't sellect one of you rcontacts from the budylist and one of them sends you a message, ari-yahoo will beep notifying you that you have received a message. if however, you have a query open to that user, it will not beep at you. hth -- Shaun Oliver. "We realize we have a problem with communication. However, we're not going to discuss it with our staff." email: shauno at goanna.net.au ICQ: 76958435