> Yo!
> I'm thinking of writing a bulletin board and I wonder about 
> threads. I want the board to be built on threads but I don't 
> know how to do it. I want it to look something like this:
> subject 1
>    |
>    |__ reply1 to 'subject 1'
>    |       |
>    |       |__ reply1 to 'reply1 to subject 1'
>    |       |
>    |       |__ reply2 to 'reply1 to subject 1'
>    |
>    |__ reply2 to 'subject 1'
> This is important to me so I'm thankful for any help I can get!

Just keep track of a parent message number.  You should be able
to use that one field to trace any message back to a root message.
And with that information, you should be able to build a "thread".

Chris

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