hello y'all, > I'm amazed there are girls on this list. In fact, I don't see that it > matters, we're all dorks who just wanna hack. I know if I use the term > "guys" I mean it more like "y'all" which is what I used to say when I was > in the service but that sounds funny up here in the north country. I personally think "y'all" is a useful linguistic construct, which otherwise is lacking from the English language. the German 'ihr' means roughly the same thing as "y'all", and they use it quite a bit. I fail to see why English should lack a good term for "all of you", when other languages have it. Carl Soderstrom. -- Network Engineer Real-Time Enterprises (952) 943-8700