Henry I have tried Cooltalk a couple of times but found that with our poor bandwidth it is pretty dreadful from here. The idea is that using a sound card and microphone you can have a chat session which includes "real-time" audio, a graphics frame for interactive paint sessions and a split frame that allows typing. The first try was with a colleague who always has a CD running in the background on his machine. That meant that I never got a chance to talk at all since his machine was permanently sending! The next was to a colleague in Leeds and the line was continually being chopped so we missed the last syllable of each word. I don't think BT has anything to worry about. Not sure how chemical MIME would fit in. -- Dr. Robert Lancashire http://wwwchem.uwimona.edu.jm:1104/uwichem.html Department of Chemistry mailto:rjlanc@uwimona.edu.jm University of the West Indies Tel: (809) 927-1910 Mona Campus, Kingston 7, JAMAICA Fax: (809) 977-1835 ----- chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. Archived as: http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To unsubscribe, send to listserver@ic.ac.uk the following message; unsubscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (rzepa@ic.ac.uk)