Sorry Ram, I didn't mean to criticise you; I realize that the .sig on your email-from-work is mandatory. I merely found it amusing, is all. I agree 100% with you, there's too much bloat in list mail. It's only a couple of keystrokes(*) to remove extraneous text, and it makes intent clearer when the original one or two lines is above (or below) instead of 100. (*) such as d} in vi, my classic (sic) text editor :-) Tom Jennings <tomj(a)wps.com> PS: } isn't classic vi motion, I think it's a vim extention.