Friends: There are at least 2 ways to get the e-mail address of the sender of a message: Use Reply to Author, or Reply to All, or Forward Message... That brings up the entire message including the author's e-mail address. Then you highlight the e-mail address, go to Edit, & then cick on Copy. Close the old message, open a new message & put the curser in "To", go to Edit & then click on Paste. You should then have the e-mail address of the sender so you can reply personally & off list. Another way is to right click on the persons name & a list will apprear. Then click on Properties and then on Details, & you will see the entire path that this e-mail took. Either use the scroll bar to "From" or if you see a "Message Search" button & find "From". Then copy and paste the address into a new message. I hope this is of some help. This is the methods that I use all the time so as not to put personal messages on our lists. Linda cg/ Ben 69/5 [log in to unmask]