>Not having discussed this issue with Barbara, I may be off track but what >occurs to me on this subject is the situation such as in the following >scenario. Suppose, as I think Barabara suggests, I am browsing through my >new messages and come across a thread that appears to be of particular >interest which is also apparently "live" or currently active, ie, seems >that real-time to-and-from messages are coming in on the subject as I am >reading it. Now if, at this point, I have not reviewed the remaining >messages below this message in the new message list then in this situation, >in order to read the follow-up incoming messages "attached" to this thread >and I would have to click on the "Get new Messages" icon thereby "wiping >out" the remaining - and as yet unread - messages. Hence I then have to >logout and relog on with clicking the little box on the sign-in page to >retrieve those remaining messages in order to now read them. The >alternative is that I have to read all my messages first and then return to >the thread of interest, however if there are a great number of other >messages to read, by the time I can return to the thread of interest it may >be that the moment to participate directly in an "interactive" mode has now >passed. UT is turning real time, hey. :) I will see what can done.