NB>> "re: " without regard to case, since it strips
 NB>> the first but bot the second.

 ml>> well, let's see what happens with this one ;)

 ml>> RE! changed to RE# so as to keep up with each ;)

 DC> The RE# came through fine.  I changed to   RE# RE: ,
 DC> just because!

yeah yeah yeah... but you'll notice that the RE: is not stripped out now
because it is not first in the line...

)\/(ark