> All three messages went through, although, they took longer to arrive via > the chileheads list than the messages to me directly in my email box. Of course. Your Cc: messages had no delay beyond your mail-server realizing it just had to rotate them in place and immediately plop them down in your inbox. The chile-heads messages had to travel across the wire, get processed by the server (append to digest, figure out what list it is then who all to send it to...), then come back down the wire to your inbox. --- Brent