You delete excess messages from your reply in Gmail the same way you do in any other program: highlight what you don't want and then hit the delete key. It just takes a minute or two. Triste --- If you can't get rid of them ugly old skeletons in the closet, at least teach 'em how to dance funny. Billy C. Wirtz --- On Thu, 3/24/11, Brownie MacKie <lumackie@gmail.com> wrote: > Why  don't you just join the > List group instead.  You get the same > messages..... only one at a time in separate windows.  > Working from Gmail, > there is no way to get rid of the other attached messages > that I can find. > > On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 2:20 PM, Richard Sherer > <richard.a.sherer@gmail.com>wrote: > > > Out of consideration for those of us who read this > list in digest form on > > small mobile instruments, please remember to trim off > all the old messages > > when you reply to someone.