OK... I'm moving along with the usenet gateway and getting closer. (For those of you who are new to perl and hacking, this is not a hack for the light of heart!) The problem I had installing the perl modules is that I am hosted by a virtual host who does not technically support perl modules, some of which require superuser access. However, I was able to get around it a bit by installing the modules and perl in a directory off of my root directory. Typing in usr/bin/perl or whatever would not work because I don't have control to the absolute root of the server, only mine. Hope this helps and I'm back at it...