At 6/29/01 09:34 AM -0700, you wrote:
Uhm, if the subject and the body (what you read now) are erased, isn't that defined "a new message"?
No, not at all. Since the days of the beginning of Usenet, "real" mail clients (not including anything from Microsoft) recognize something called threading. That is, they are able to organize messages based on the "conversation" to which they belong so that you can easily read all the mails exchanged on a sigle topic in order.
Threads can usually also be expanded and collapsed, so that even if there are 50 messages on one thread, you can mark all of them as read in a single click if you don't want to read that thread.
New messages are *only* those created using the "New Message" button or menu option of your mailreader. Replies and forwards belong to the thread started with the last new message.
-- Rodolfo J. Paiz rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx