I just did a f-followup to a thread, but wanted to talk about something mentioned in that thread, but to do it via a fresh thread, where it'd be easier to see (instead of a switched via "was: " topic down in the middle of a thread), and would be *possible* to see in the one-line-per-thread display. So I answered that yes, it was a different topic. Trn asked the usual set of questions on starting a new thread, but left out one (from the "followup" set of questions) that I really wanted -- "include the prior post?" (or whatever it asks; you know what I'm talking about.) Including that question in this situation of starting a new thread whose idea was generated by another thread, whose text would give needed context to the *new* thread, is, I believe, a valid and useful way to use trn. How much trouble would it be to have a global variable "I originated in a followup-cmd", looked at by your probable subroutine "start new thread", which I assume your followup with "unrelated topic" combination calls? Thanks David Combs ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf
