>Yes and yes. Both. If turned on, watched threads would show at the top of the map of messages. If turned off, then not but they could still be available for viewing in a tree format from a mouse click.

One point about showing the marked threads, at login time, on top of the map of messages, is that some members have the maximum number of threads. Thus, I do not think it would be appropriate to show 50 threads in there at first. I think, at first, we could have an icon, by default for all, which can be turned OFF, known as the "Marked threads" icon, but probably represented by "Marked" as we only have one word per icon, which will provide a one click access to the marked threads. Or, I do not know if there is a standard word to use for that. What are they using elsewhere? Is there a better representation for that?