Replies are saved in Sent Items.
Any replies that you want to save should be moved to a user created folder.
After the move, Sent Items should be compacted.

Users created folders will have the same columns as the Inbox.
I add a To: column on the right.
--
Ronald Sommer

"Bill" wrote in message
...
: Hi All,
:
: Generally OE is ok but when I first sync it is taking 30 seconds or so for
: the dialogue that tells you what is going on to populate with all the
tasks
: it has to do.
:
: My Outlook Express folder (under local settings) is now over 1GB in size
and
: am subscribed to about 40 newsgroups. For the larger NG's I only download
: headers.
:
: PC is running W2K. Processor is an Athlon XP running at 1800MHz. Memory is
: 512MB. There is plenty of disk space available.
:
: I don't think there is anything wrong as such, simply that I need to do
some
: maintenance, but I'm not sure what to do. Main thing is that I don't want
to
: lose replies to messages I have posted to newsgroups.
:
: I have tried compacting messages but it has not really made any
difference.
:
: Can anyone advise please?
:
: Thanks.
: Bill.
:
: