No, you can't do it like yahoo groups. You need to read the message in the archives, then highlight what you want to reply to, copy it, open a new email and paste it in there. It's a minor annoyance with freelists, but the group agreed it was way less annoying than all the spam and popups, AND unreliable service we had to deal with at yahoo, so we left yahoo and we've been much happier at freelists. Linda Linda's Computer Stop http://personal-computer-tutor.com ABC Free Ezine ~ Free Ebooks and Tutorials *all outgoing mail scanned by Norton AV. If you got a bug that looks like it came from me, it did NOT! -----Original Message----- From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jamshed F. Mehta Sent: Saturday, November 06, 2004 10:56 AM To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [mso] REPLYING ON A THREAD ON THIS LIST. Dear Moderator: If we go to the archives and want to reply to a particular post in a particular thread, do we HAVE to go through our email service. Is there any way to do it directly as is done in "YAHOO GROUPS"? Also how do we show the original posts? Also pressing I went thru the FAQs but couldn't find any instructions. Jamshed F. Mehta ************************************************************* You are receiving this mail because you subscribed to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or MicrosoftOffice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To send mail to the group, simply address it to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To Unsubscribe from this group, send an email to mso-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "unsubscribe" (without the quotes) in the subject line. Or, visit the group's homepage and use the dropdown menu. This will also allow you to change your email settings to digest or vacation (no mail). //www.freelists.org/webpage/mso To be able to use the files section for sharing files with the group, send a request to mso-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and you will be sent an invitation with instructions. Once you are a member of the files group, you can go here to upload/download files: http://www.smartgroups.com/vault/msofiles *************************************************************