> Probably want to nuke punctuation and capitalization before doing > the sort. I'm too braindead at the moment, but some perl incantation > might be the way to go, or if you're old school then awk would probably > work.
Yea, that occurred to me. Since I was pasting a spam into a text file anyway I just did that manually, since I couldn't seem to figure out sed's re grouping syntax to treat the punctuation like spaces. Loren