Anne, Not that I'm advocating the use of html, the cursed Windows-1252, or anything else non-standard, but, do you have w3 installed? I have w3 and vm. When I'm reading an html message, w3's parser cleans it up, and puts the result into a "vm presentation" buffer. -Dave (one o'them emacs desktop users) Ann Parsons writes: > Hi all, > > Now, that's irritating! Why should I use Pine if I like VM and it > works just fine? I can read the HTML, but it does take an extra > keystroke to do so. One shouldn't have to be afflicted with Windows > idiocy on a Linux list. Go into the options of Microsoft Gumbus and > UN-check HTML & and anything else except for plain blessed text!! > <GRRRRRRR>