To facilitate people efficiently choosing to open or not open a specific posting by what the subject matter is, those who just hit the reply icon on their server will end up with a subject line that only gives the Vol/Issue numbers and no specific subject, thereby causing your post to be arbitarily unopened, and there goes someone who might be of assistance to you. Of the last five messages on 9/29 digest mode, only two were properly subject lined, three essentially had no subject line. I personally hit my 'Write' icon, type in the first 2 or 3 letters such as njb, and my address book pops all those so starting, simply click on the one you want. I then either copy and paste the specific subject line or just retype it into the subject line, no need to put NJBURLIN in front of the subject. The list will automatically follow your query with the other posts with the same subject line, and NOT putting all the strings back into it. So a few seconds to post from 'scratch' saves a lot of irritation to many, and you can be sure your post will be read by those interested in that subject line. Trust this works for others as well as it does for me. Aileen in WA