>> i don't know why, either... it just happened all of a
>> sudden... this area seems to have been sporadic for months...

 G> Dale was gating it, but he has some software that removes the
 G> html since many of the posts here are done in html or
 G> text/html format.

stripping the HTML shouldn't result in no text... it didn't used to be this
way on the fido side... in fact, this area and NTHELP (as its known on the
fido side) are what led me to accessing the newsserver directly...

)\/(ark