but it can be hard to sort out the threads.

The trick is to always read all the new posts every day and not let them get ahead of you. Something that is helpful is when people include a brief highlighted summary of what they are replying to.

But Tony is right -- especially when you are on a slower dial-up connection -- you can go through all the posts in a fraction of the time it takes to do it in threaded mode.

tanstaafl.