The nearest web safe colour to white is probably something like the grey on this page. Any shade of off white is going to be non web safe, any web safe colour other than white is not going to look even remotely like white.

Having said that the colour that this message is on is #f7f7f7, not web safe but easy on the eye alright.
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[This message has been edited by abbeyvet (edited 02-17-2001).]

Thanks for the reply. Do seem to remember now that it was the font not the background that was the topic that I saw.