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Martijn wrote: >> Thanks Martijn, but luckily I didn't have >> to resort to that because Simon's suggestion >> solved this for me! :) > > Gmail writes on its help page "Ever replied to a message only to find > out that someone sent a better, smarter reply right before you?" Well, > I think this was such an occasion. :) I've been there myself on some lists. Sometimes I was even the person that wrote the better, smarter reply right before the other person... ;) One of the beauties of the internet is that the pool of knowledge and experience in any field that anyone can tap for the purpose of solving a specific problem. By looking at replies from just three people in this instance I was able to find a solution to my problem in the same evening it occurred. No one person has all the best answers to everything, so there will inevitably be times when each of us make the less clever answer on any thread in any list on any subject, regardless of how knowledgeable we are on that subject. I don't think it matters too much. I think that's just how the knowledge pool actually works. Anton -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html