I mainly use tree view, mixing in Threaded occasionally, so I hadn't noticed it, but no, that's not how it's supposed to work. (Here's Lee's description.) Cnet's more or less on skeleton crew through New Year's so it likely won't make it to the list for a few days, but it looks like yet another bug is to be added to the engineers' list. It's now on my list, though.
John
When post has multiple replies the original has next unread
The replies are marked green or unread
But when you click on next unread in the original and it shift to the first unread reply the other replies are then marked gray or read.
The read replies are marked with back to top which causes you to scroll all replies to find out if you have read them.
Windows XP SP2
Firefox 2.0
Is the forum set up to respond this way?
Thanks
Ray

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