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>Unfortunately, Ken, many of us do not have this luxury. If I
>want to echo part of a message in my new message, I must
>accept the original heading....unless someone knows a
>work-around.
>Janie Bergen
In the vms world you can "forward/edit" instead of reply/extract to echo
any part of an message and still change the subject line.
However, if you "forward/edit" you have to remember the address of your
correspondent.
Mick Souder
masouder -at- alex -dot- stkate -dot- edu