Elizabeth Amen! Filtering is one of the greatest tools in controlling one's blood pressure and sanity <grin>!! If you know someone or something is going to hit your hot button, filter it out and you won't even know it's there. And when you later decide that you really want to read msgs from a given individual or on a specific topic, you can always change the filter or eliminate it. Today's email programs are very powerful and flexible; and if one cannot figure out their intracacies, there are a number of tutorials geared to a blind audience that explain how to use them along with individuals who can, for a reasonable fee, teach one how to do so .