On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 09:51:18 -0000, Alan B. Pearce wrote: > This is a well known problem with Outlook and Outlook Express. Apparently M$ > in their wisdom see fit to strip the subject line up to and including the > colon before applying the "Re:" when replying to messages. This is > supposedly to stop the very long strings of "Re: Re:" in subject lines. Yes, and the complexity of detecting and removing only the string: "Re:" was too much for MS's programmers... Cheers, Howard Winter St.Albans, England -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics (like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics