On Tuesday, January 21, 2003, 1:12:54 PM, Bruce wrote: BM> Eh??? Don't think you're applying yourself totally here. Not really sure what you mean by that. Not applying myself to what? BM> When I read this list with Kmail, I use: The -->> (rt arrow) key to move from email to email. BM> If I read a note and I'm done with it, I press DEL. If not, keep going BM> with the arrow key. BM> This leaves everything that is either unread or 'want to keep' still in BM> the inbox. Doesn't seem so tough to me. Sure that works but I find it much faster to glance through a list of 300 e-mails and threads and just lock the ones down that I'm interested in reading later. Then I can just delete the whole folder of e-mails and not worry about losing the e-mails that I want to read later. With your plan you actually have to actually spend the time cycling through every single e-mail with your arrow keys and then hitting delete on each one. That's way slower than just looking through the list of messages you want to read later and marking them locked so that they don't deleted. As a side note, I really loved the way The Bat on windows had a way to just right click on a thread and lock (they called it 'park') the entire thread. This works out great. Today on the suse list is a perfect example... I'm interested in reading all the comments about the "favorite desktop thread" yet I'm at work and don't really have the time right now to go through them all. If using a client without a lock or park messages feature, I'd have to move them all over to a "To Read" folder if I plan on deleting the rest of the SuSE messages at the end of the day or else carefully delete all the other messages except the thread(s) I want to read. (A problem with the later is also that most clients when your viewing in thread mode don't let you selectively delete a large group of threaded and unthreaded messages). -- Rick mailto:maillist@reumann.net