America Off Line sucks! Downloads of AOL ver 4 should be available. (I think you could plain text with that one) You can easily have multiple ver of AOL on your computer at one time. Once I had versions 3-8 and had uses for most of them. AOL is so buggy that the only way I could edit my web pages was with ver 5. If an AOLer I suggest you open a free Hotmail.com account and use it for posting. JohnT