I prefer having the original message included. Sometimes when I read the CH email, the original message is not available. This happens because sometimes I retrieve my email at home, and at other times a get it at work. This can result in an original message sitting on my PC at home, and having replies to it on a PC at work. Anyway, I find that looking for a previous message in thread is more trouble than just ignoring the previous message(s). Mike Benson