As usual, I find myself agreeing with Ellen. I often (not always) appreciate seeing the message being replied too along with the new reply. Perhaps it's just the e-mail client I use (the obsolete and no longer supported Eudora), but I don't find it at all confusing to sort out the new response from the older thread. I'm really a little confused by all the confusion! Jim Shields in clear central Indiana USA At 01:52 PM 8/24/2010 -0400, you wrote: >Evidently I'm missing something here, but how hard can it be to ignore the >included message to which a poster is responding and just read their >response? Personally, I find it helpful to be able to glance at the old >message and refresh my memory as to what the thread's about - but if I >don't need to, I don't, and no hard feelings towards the poor idiot who >sent it. :-) > >Ellen ************************************************* Jim Shields USDA Zone 5 Shields Gardens, Ltd. P.O. Box 92 WWW: http://www.shieldsgardens.com/ Westfield, Indiana 46074, USA Tel. ++1-317-867-3344 or toll-free 1-866-449-3344 in USA