Hey, Good Mornin' to ya! On the Taney list, the subject of the subject line has come up. As listowner, I had/have the option of either allowing or disallowing the subject line. It is recommended by many of the busier list owners to not have the subject line--for various reasons--I don't particularly care one way or 't'other. We'll try it with the subject lines on both for a time. However, I already have the settings for "Reply To" set to have your replies to posts to return to the lists, not the individual (I might mention, against the suggestion of Rootsweb; again, that's where my own judgement on what's best for my lists came into play). Folks, this is where your options on reply come into play. I've got Outlook for a mailing program; it took some getting used to after Compuserve, but I managed to get used to it. On both Outlook and Compuserve, there are/were 2 reply buttons: 1) Reply to, for the individual, and 2) Reply to All. Different email programs send mail different ways--some folks post to the list, and you see their name and individual addys instead of "from MOTANEY" or "from MO-AR-WRV". I don't know the technical jargon for that, and I don't know that settings for that option can be changed. It is the email programs, not the lists, that cause that. I do know that the default for replies is back to the lists, but if you see the person's name instead of the list name in where it comes from, your reply is going to go to the individual, IF you hit "reply to". If you click on "Reply to All", it will go both to the individual and to the list. If you want to reply to the individual, click "Reply to". If you want to post your reply to the list, click "Reply to All". Of course, that means the person you're replying to is likely to get 2 copies, but that's a whole different set of problems, one I can't fix. If you don't want that person to get 2 copies, you can delete their addy in your reply. The way my mail is set up, I can't hit either button, which is why you seldom see "Re:" in my replies to querys/posts (I have to type it in). I have to do a whole new email, or it sits in my outbox forever--something to do with the fact that my main addy is "copper turtle" and our server is "peoplepc". I can't use either of my reply buttons. That also explains why I sometimes forget if I've replied to someone in response to a certain email, because I have no record of it. If you've not had any problems with your reply method, continue using it. If you have had problems with "reply" in regards to the list, find and click on "reply to all", okay? If you understand technical jargon and want to know why Rootsweb discourages having the default replies to the list, you can visit: http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html Personally, it was full of big words and I wasn't too clear on all the points for and against, but it is the argurment Rootsweb uses. Vonda ListMom