Hi Bea I can assure you the default is not to get a copy of your own posts with gmail I have the scars to prove it <g> According to gmail its to "help stop clutter in your inbox" You presumably have had a setting changed at some point as thats the only way it works, if you didn't do it perhaps someone set it up for you ? Best wishes Nivard Ovington, in Cornwall (UK) >I have google mail and I get copies of my own messages from the list O'K. > > Bea > > >> Google mail doesn't send you a copy of your own message, an annoying >> "feature" of gmail, so perhaps this is why you believe your messages >> haven't reached the list.