Thankyou Debby but in your reply there is no content of the former mail so it is only that it was just a few minutes ago that I remembered what you were talking about. As I receive some 150-180 messages a day it is very hard to know what people are talking about if the reply does not a contain a copy of the previous message. I hope this makes sense ? Regards Valerie -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Debby Raymond Sent: Wednesday, 11 April 2007 6:15 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [IRL-DUBLIN-CITY] How to reply to messages Valerie, When I first subscribed to the list I had a choice in how I wanted to read the messages from other subscribers, whether in digest form or as a list. As I understood it, ‘digest’ meant that the messages would be combined and the list administrator would send them out as a block of messages every now and again, say once a week. On the other hand, to read messages as a list meant each message would be sent out to every subscriber as they were posted. I asked to read the messages on the message board one at a time. They come straight into my Outlook Express Inbox. That way, I can reply to a single message by simply hitting my reply button on the tool bar. If you receive your messages in digest form, you can’t do this. (Question to the list administrator – have I understood this correctly? If not, could you please clarify.) When you reply to a message, the body of the original message remains in the message pane, more often below the answer you give. If this doesn’t fully answer your question, perhaps the list administrator would post something to help us all. Debby Raymond, Queensland, Australia. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message