THIS IS NOT A 3000 RELATED ISSUE. If not interested, CLOSE immediately! It is about a MAIL problem that affects most of us. We have MANY readers on this list and I think it is appropriate to share it. I do not know if this happens to other electronic mail systems. I use MS-Mail and I am having trouble following some treads on the list because of the difference in time zones. If a request issued at any workstation is time stamped, let's say at 2:00pm, and someone on a time zone 4 hours behind it receives the message at 10:00am, an immediate reply will issue a new message time stamped around 10:05am. This means that when I get these messages the next morning, many answers are displayed before the request. My question is, do all E-Mail packages do this, or are there some that can allow you to sort the messages by the date/time they were RECEIVED on your local POSTOFFICE instead? Of course this means that the LOCAL postoffice that handles your mail must put a received time stamp on each message. I do not know if this is possible but it would only solve the problem partially because the postoffice can receive both messages at the same time. The best thing to do would be to time stamp the messages with Greenwich time and have the MAIL setup program include a TIME ZONE field for the workstation that will be used to display the correct time for the zone upon retrieval of the messages. Maybe I am wishing too much but mail software companies should be thinking about this for their next releases. . Regards, [log in to unmask]