Folks, one last time: There is NO WAY to do a short prepend of the Southern-Trails-L name, like STL. I am not going to prepend a list name that would hide the subject from a number of users because they have limited number of characters to see. Your options: 1) set up the mail filters to send your Southern Trails mail into their own folder. (This is what I do for all my good lists. It keeps the messages together in one area, and makes it convenient.) I don't know how to do this using Microsoft outlook since I don't run it, but to do it under netscape, you go to file, and set up a new folder. Then you go to edit, click on message filters, click on new, and select "the to or cc:" in the box that says subject, and in the line that is blank after contains, enter Southern-Trails. On the folder select, toggle the new folder you've made for your southern trails messages, and after that point, everything from ST will be in the folder separated from the rest. Most, if not all mail software has a similar set of functions. This makes email much more managable. Option two: get the digest, since it is always prepended. Now personally, I don't like digests, which is why I use folders, but I have the digest form set to the minimal size it'll let me, so that they never get too big before being sent out. Until Rootsweb comes up with a way to prepend a short form of the list name, I will not prepend Southern Trails. If I was reading this off of my other computer, I'd never be able to see what the subject was, cause it's running old software, and I know I'm not the only one out there, either. As Mamie Yokum used to say in the ol' Li'l Abner comic strip, I has spoken. Sue [email protected]