Rumor has it that Jim Isbell, W5JAI may have mentioned these words: I *do*. It takes what *might* be a semi-functional idea, and converts it to something udderly unmanageable. See below for more. Hey, because everyone else is doing it, *must* make it a good idea! :-O I'm on the Tandy CoCo list at maltedmedia.com; and it has a "sub-gateway" (for wont of a better term) from the yahoogroups list. The maltedmedia list puts a [CoCo] string at the beginning of the subject; no problem, right? But the yahoogroups puts [Color Computer] in front of their posts... and not all mail clients "do the right thing" with attribution prefixes, so you'll end up with something like this on the subject line: Re: FWD: [CoCo] Re2: [Color Computer] re: Where's my subject now? It's a right PITA to deal with that jazz... "If it ain't broke, *don't* fix it." Laterz, Roger "Merch" Merchberger P.S. I almost exclusively do my mailing list sorting via the "X-BeenThere: your at listhere.dom" header; most good MLMs add it, and it's generally unique to that list. -- Roger "Merch" Merchberger | Anarchy doesn't scale well. -- Me zmerch at 30below.com. | SysAdmin, Iceberg Computers