Hi Jean,

I like the left hand frame. Now that we are down to three frames, I think it would be a good idea to have the banners in their own frame. This will serve a couple of purposes:

1. Any functions that won't fit can be placed in the top frame, and hence, they will not scroll off when looking at the tree.

2. I think it is good to throw the advertisers a bone here....< g >

Some additional comments...

With respect to the trees/maps - I suspect it would not be difficult to render those links as DHTML that could be expanded and collapsed.

Again, with respect to the map, this time, the map of all new messages, I think it would be good to have a dropdown that allowed a person to view a section at a time. One of the choices could be 'All Sections'. This would minimize the scrolling one needs to perform.

I think we are definitely on the right track here...!!!