> I did see this phrase before posting my question. > But what I meant was : it doesn't tell me *which e-mail message* it is > about Sigh. I'm not certain whether it makes much sense to keep track of *every* message Subject: line -- a vast majority of people don't respond to the same mailing list so many times in a finite time period that the delay between the posting and the response is significant. The composition time compared to delivery time (assuming that there is reasonable connectivity between your site and the server site) is at least 3-4:1. > Ok. But why can't the server include a copy of my Subject: line in its > Subject: line ? My server distributes more than 150,000 files a day. The extra processing time (which I'm giving away gratis to the net) would be significant to add this 'feature' which is of limited utility to the vast majority of the user population.