Well said! Just wish I would have been the one saying it. May I have permission to save and use your script at a later date? Laura -----Original Message----- From: Anne Lamb <alamb@juno.com> >1) If you get the lists as individual messages [FIANNA-L], hit Reply and >choose to Quote the message. Then highlight and delete all parts that >don't help to identify what you are answering. Keep it short. This >technique will send the message back to the list but without too much >extraneous material. Some services such as AOL will allow you to >highlight just the part you want to quote and then hit Reply and that is >the only part that will be quoted in your answer. > > If you want to send a copy to the sender, highlight and copy that to >the TO: section also. > >2) If you get the messages as a Digest, don't hit reply. Just highlight >the message you are replying to, copy it and drop it in a new mail form. >Delete (Ctrl-X) the addresses [FIANNA-L@rootsweb.com, and <sender>] and >copy them (Ctrl-C) into the TO: area and the topic into the Subject area. > It takes much less time to do this than to tell you about it. Then >answer it. > >I used to get these lists through a bulletin board, but now I find it >much easier and faster to get them as Digests through e-mail. > >Also, if I find a message in a digest that I want to save as a whole, I >just copy it and send it back to myself, or copy it to a word processing >document. > >Anne Lamb