I'm in total agreement with this. Believe it or not, each and every time I make first response to such a thread, I do so with the intention of sending it only to the poster... then just after I click send, I once again realize that REPLY goes to the list instead of the SENDER and REPLY TO ALL doesn't work at all... [0] Once I've done that I regret it, but admittedly not enough to stop my subsequent OT posts in that thread. Recently, I've had just enough presence of mind to remember to re-address the message. Outlook is programmable, so it can be made to operate the way I want it to regardless of how brain-dead the listserver software might be (I haven't been happy with any listservers other than the IBM BITNET-hosted ones; this seems to be a function no one else can do right). I guess I need to get started, as soon as the Cyber simulator is finished... [0] If you can't believe that anyone can be this absent-minded, then you haven't interacted with a very wide range of people -dq