Robert Hartley wrote: > You could try a deja search > > www.deja.com and go to the uunews/newsnet link Deja is rather sickly at the moment and access to old posts is unreliable. A better bet might be the archive at http://www.bio.net/hypermail/methods/ although they have a rather poor search engine. > Cheers > Bob; Cloudy Scotland love Anna (Rainy Leicester)