i tend to agree with keith. this thread should have started life with the subject line "I can't figure out how to use filters on my client-side or web-side email system" and died right there. (Both hotmail and yahoo can at least filter on "To: or Cc:" which'll catch emails sent to ietf@xxxxxxxx - the same rule's worked for my old netscape 4.x client for years.) gja Keith Moore wrote: > > > > > would it be asking too much to add [ietf] to the subject line of each message? > > yes. it's completely redundant information, and it interferes with readability, > particularly on small displays. > > why don't you get a better mail reader that lets you classify mail as it arrives? > that is a much better way to distinguish one list's traffic from another.