It seems to me that it might make things easier to follow when displaying in flat mode if the message numbers were displayed and the replies said something like "reply to ###". Otherwise, I find myself needing to flip to threaded mode to understand some messages. Apologies if this is already in there somewhere--I'm new around here...

Bill Dimm, <A HREF="http://MagPortal.com/" target="_new">MagPortal.com</A> - find magazine articles