>>Not to drag it out, but one more question...
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>>If the link target is the message frame when using the map button, and the link target for a map message is the message frame, why does one stay in its window and the other migrate to another?
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>When you click the button uder the message,
>you certainly do not want to lose the upper frame thread.
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>Its the reason of the opening of a new window for the buttons.
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>The message link open the message in the "natural" place to open a message.
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>Michel can confirm or infirm what I think is the reason behind this behaviour :-)

As I said, default to open in a new window when clicking a thread/message link is GOOD for the reason you say (don't want to lose top part).

but in the NEW window clicking on Map - which is said to have the message frame as its link target - it opens WITHIN the same window as where it was clicked.
Now the messages in the map apparently (also) have the message frame as their target, just like the Map, YET THE MESSAGE ACTUALLY OPENS IN THE MESSAGE AREA of another window.
It looks very incongruant to me. Shouldn't theyboth DO THE SAME THING???

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>HTH