"I have never learned how to just respond to the title topic on freerepublic, if anyone can instruct me on doing that instead of me having to directly respond to one of the repliers I would appreciate that. I wish that freereplublic would use a standard forum like phpbb or mybb as it is more organized to me." Reply to the first post, or any post, and erase the FReeper name in the "To:" field before clicking "Post." And then you won't be pinging anyone.