On Jan 19, 2007, at 5:33 PM, Linda wrote: > On 1/19/07 4:25 PM, T.L. Miller wrote: > >>> If you do hit reply, then delete everything in the reply window >>> except what you are replying to. >> >> Except that still adds the new message to the thread of the old >> message >> -- also not good form. > > > Someone had better explain Threads versus displaying messages by > Subject -- > the latter seems to be what more people do than by Threads (in > fact, I don't > know how to group by Thread in my chosen email reader, so I group by > Subject, which ignores Threads). Linda: Do you use OS X Mail app? If so and you want to view messages by threads, click on the View Menu and then select Organize by Thread. I don't know how you do it in any other mail app because this is the only one I've ever used. Sorry, I take that back, I once used Entourage but didn't like it. Tim