Jon-

<PRE> and <POST> tags are good for a whole block of text but if you want to space out individual spaces you can also do it with &nbsp;. You can put in an individual space between characters like this...

Space&nbsp;Break

... with the result looking like...

Space Break

You can also put multiple &nbsp; tags in to create the effect that gnu was looking for like this...

\__&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;__/<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;0&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;0<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;oo<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\__/<br>

With the end result looking like this....

\__      __/
    0    0
      oo
     \__/

In fact, Gnu, you could "cut and paste" the code above into your "signature" area of your emails...

- Al