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To: BryanB who wrote (550)	7/16/1999 4:59:00 PM
From: David Lawrence	Respond to of 2340

I don't believe there is any way to do that. If the browser has the URL of the link in its URL cache, it displays the link in the "visited" color, otherwise it displays it in the "unvisited" color. As time passes, visited links eventually become unvisited when they roll out of the cache. Bottom line - if you view the messages via "Next 10", they will always appear as unvisited links, unless you actually visit one of them. However, SI should remember the last message that you read, assuming that you read to the end of the list each time you read messages in batch mode.

To: BryanB who wrote (550)	7/18/1999 9:48:00 PM
From: David Lawrence	Respond to of 2340

>>Paul wrote - After advancing to the 'Next 10' group of messages the system should mark the previous 10 as having been read. We've had a number of folks suggest this same thing, so I'm glad you brought it up again. We definitely looked at this, but alas (and alack), as creative as our engineering team is, they couldn't come up with a way of doing this. Personally, I am only technical enough to be dangerous, but in this case, it appears to be a browser technology limitation. Sorry. In my earlier reply to the above I thought (correctly?) that the discussion had to do with the color of each message's link in the thread listing. Can't be done since the URL of each message has not been visited. However, I note that public messages to me remain in my inbox even after I have read them via the "Next 10" feature. That is something the engineers can fix. Perhaps you should get some opinions from the thread as to whether or not this is a desired feature, since it is possible that one could overlook a message that way.