If you want to see a more comprehensive wishlist and workarounds:
http://ion.pattern.net/zd/wishlist/wishlist.cgi
You'll be interested in the comments for " Message Marking" (among others).
I posted these two suggestions twice in the "Feedback" forum but for some reason the message never appeared. Therefore, I'll try to post it here in this forum:
1. The "Jump to Page" line at the top of the message forums should also appear at the bottom of the forums. It is quite inconvenient having to scroll back to the top of the page to go to page 2 or whatever.
2. Messages should be highlighted each time they are clicked on, or read, so that when a reader returns to the last page he was reading he will know which message was the last he read.
I'm sorry these suggestions had to be posted in the wrong forum.
Bill D.

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