Guess you are right about it being an MSN thing. I belong to Yahoo groups and it's a feature there. It seems like a natural thing to be able to search the messages. How are you supposed to find messages that relate to your interests or needs? Yahoo is much better than MSN. Thanks for the responses.
Browsing is half the fun.....you never know what you might find, even if the thread title didn't seem like it related to you I hate the way Yahoo groups are set up & how it drags every single post in the thread into your response