Hello all, I hear two sorts of needs expressed: (a) a need for CLARITY, SIMPLICITY, and EFFICIENCY (Such as my personal need to avoid spending precious time scrolling through pages and pages of messages, trying, often with significant struggle and no small amount of irritation, to figure out what the new ones are, and simultaneously wondering why on earth a poster would fail to take the time to be courteous, i.m.o, and delete all irrelevant information and to use a relevant/informative subject line.) (b) a need for INFORMATION and CONTEXT (Such as my personal need to know what the heck a poster is referring to.) Happily, a third path has been suggested already, which effectively meets BOTH sets of needs. Hooray!! Namely... Delete all past threads except those immediately relevant to your post. -or- Frame your response and its subject line such that it includes relevant context. What is wrong with the third path? If one of you out there can't do this, I'd love you to explain to me, and everyone else, why you feel it's impossible to modify your posting behavior such that everyone on this list can have their (above-stated) needs met. Curiously, Chrissy Fowler Belfast, ME _________________________________________________________________ The New Busy is not the too busy. Combine all your e-mail accounts with Hotmail. http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?tile=multiaccount&ocid=P…