Whoops.. The command to check whitespace is od not oc. Mike >>> mrm at medicine.wisc.edu 2/20/2006 11:41 AM >>> I have tried using all tabs and all spaces and only LF's and only CRLF's verified by: oc -c highscoringspam.rules Messing with whitespace doesn't seem to make any difference. Is there something wrong with my syntax??