Hmmm, this sounds like a personal problem, calling for a personal solution. Rather than asking all the members of this mailing list to waste bandwidth by including the name of the list, (less the -L,) in the subject line, may I suggest that you: set your browser to display all headers. see all the places the name WHITTINGTON appears. note one or more of the header labels that contain WHITTINGTON. create a message filter that directs incoming mail with WHITTINGTON following the header label(s) noted above to an appropriate place on your computer. I hope this will resolve your problem. Regards, Lance E. Whittington Lovell Lee wrote: > > Could I ask those of you sending email to me to put Whittington in the > subject line? My wife and I share this email address that would help us > know to whom the mail is directed. > Thanks, > Lovell Lee > > At 07:23 AM 05/09/2001 EDT, [email protected] wrote: > >Hello Tom: > > > >Just a brief "thank you" for your Whittington page. I use it often and have > >referred others to it. No reply needed. > > > >Thanks again. Bill Whittington in Maryland. > > > > > >==== WHITTINGTON Mailing List ==== > > * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * > > Post a brief family history .... let's see if we're cousins > > > > > >============================== > >Search over 1 Billion names at Ancestry.com! > >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist1.asp > > > > > > ==== WHITTINGTON Mailing List ==== > * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * > Volunteer for Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness at > http://raogk.rootsweb.com/index.html > > ============================== > Visit Ancestry.com for a FREE 14-Day Trial and enjoy access to the #1 > Source for Family History Online. Go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/subscribe/subscribetrial1y.asp?sourcecode=F11HB

Lance, Lovell, et al .... there is a "switch" I can set that would prefix the word [WHITTINGTON] to the subject of every message sent through this list -- but I personally dislike that and prefer to rather use the filter approach. One example for not doing that: if you use the subject "1850 census" and want to search or sort your mailboxes for it .... If that is prefixed with names from lists you participate in, they won't sort together ... i.e. these are not the same: 1850 census [WHITTINGTON]1850 census A filter that looks at "any header" or solely at the "From" field for any occurrence of the name Whittington and that directing the email to a separate mailbox should solve the problem. At 09:24 PM 5/9/01 , Lance E.Whittington wrote: ... ssssnip >create a message filter that directs incoming mail with WHITTINGTON following >the header label(s) noted above to an appropriate place on your computer. > >I hope this will resolve your problem. >Regards, Lance E. Whittington >Lovell Lee wrote: > > > > Could I ask those of you sending email to me to put Whittington in the > > subject line? .... Tom Cloud <[email protected]>