>>>>> "Clive" == Clive D W Feather <clive at demon.net> writes: Clive> Hmm, I see that 502 is also used by some commands to mean Clive> "something broke". I suspect that all such occurrences are erroneous. Clive> Under what circumstances do real servers return 502 ? on connect, or after a failed AUTHINFO exchange, nowhere else. -- Andrew.