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To: Zeuspaul who wrote (1187)	5/3/2000 11:39:00 AM
From: Bill Larsen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 3372

Zeuspaul, Gotcha. When you click the link from the subjectmarks page, it updates the bookmark pointer for that thread to the last message available in that thread. Consider thread X with 150 messages. The last message you've read is 129. When you click the link from the subjectmarks page, the bookmark pointer is now pointing to 150 (and you start reading message 130). Let's say there is some activity and 5 messages are quickly posted. You go through all the messages using 10 at a time (which means you read messages 151-155). If you minimize the browser and then come back to the subjectmarks page, the link will point you to message 151 (even though you have already read it..) While perhaps inconvenient, it really helps speed things up on the servers. If the code has to ask (for each message), "do I need to update the subjectmarks for this user?" it could make things pretty slow. The current solution works pretty well for most threads and users. If this is a big problem for you, please let this thread know, and it can be considered for change. Thanks, Bill