Hi John, I agree re gMail! Now could you share with us the list adress for jokes? Now there was a horse fare where there was a purchase of a said horse. The horse subsequently passed on so the buyer contacted the seller to let him know, looking for his money back! The seller of the horse said: "well that never happened when I owned him! (boom boom!) (smile)! Tony ----- Original Message ----- From: John O'Regan To: vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2009 12:10 AM Subject: [vip_students] nanny gmail knows best Hello All, Gmail is a great service and the Basic HTML interface works well with JAWS, even if you can't use all the features of the Standard interface, but... I had to quit and rejoin with a different address because Gmail "skips over" messages from a mailing list sent by your own Gmail account. This is particularly irritating because I like to know that my message was distributed successfully. I didn't know Gmail behaved in this way. Paul Traynor set me straight. It also explains why I wasn't receiving copies of messages I'd sent to my jokes list on Yahoo! Groups. I thought the problem was at the Yahoo! end. I'd better send them a grovelgram, night night, John. PS: I've also discovered that the mailing list manager used by freelists.org scans messages sent to lists for keywords such as (backwards) NIOJ and EVAEL in case users send list commands to the list by mistake. Next thing you know the Internet will be tying our shoelaces for us!