Hi, Dan- To the best of my knowledge, the prepends remain under control of the administrators and no wholesale changes will be made. I could be wrong about that. I find the danger in filtering on the subject line is that it lacks security: i.e. anyone can put [LIST-UPDATE] in the subject of any old message and spoil my filtering. Also, I have seen messages with TWO prepends -- i.e. a message copied from one list and posted on another. -R. Dan M wrote: >I have all mine set up to filter subject line prepends, I hope that wont >change too ?>? > >Dan M > > -- Regards, Rod Dav4is / P.O. Box 118 / Hyde Park, NY 12538 / USA Genealogy, et Cetera: http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~dav4is/ 447 ancestral & collateral families, mostly 17°-19° century New England & European roots. Total population: 108,300+ Annex: http://www.gencircles.com/users/dav4is/ email: DAV4IS@YAHOO.COM "We have met the enemy, and he is us!" -Pogo Possum (1970)

The very best line to filter on is the X-Loop: header. And for prepends, I choose on my Edmondson/Edmonson/Edmundson/Edmiston etc lists to use the same prepend on all - ie [EDM]. Anyone filtering on that prepend will get them all in the same mailbox, something which is positive, not negative. If someone else is using [EDM] for another list, those will go there, too. Margaret