> > > you mean beside each other? maybe not use a table, just inline text?

> > But I want each entry to be at the same horizontal position as the one above it.

try this; its a bodge but it seems to work on IE5.5

<table border=1> <!-- show border just for debug -->

<tr><td>subject<td>author<td nowrap>date time<td width="100%">&nbsp;
<tr><td colspan=4>message goes here

<tr><td>subject<td>author<td>date time<td>
<tr><td colspan=4>message goes here

</table>

notes: in the subject, author and date-time fields, replace all spaces with &nbsp; (or try disabling wordwrap)

you only need to set the column width to "100%" in the first message, but can't see the harm in doing it for every message.

let me know if this works well :-)
to look ok, you