No Necessarily. The unread messages are actually messages posted since your last login. In reality, you may actually "read" a message, but it still show up on that list. What you can do, by pressing the icon, is set your last "read" message to the last message that was posted, thus, clearing out your "unread" messages.

Accoss the top frame that I am proposing, you could have a series of hyperlinks that would change the contents of what is now the upper frame. For clarity, you could have a title that states the type of messages that appear in the tree.




>Hi John,
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>I've seen a couple requests for the upper frame behaviour recently. I think that might screw some people up though. The upper frame shows unread messages, correct. If the calender/search/etc. dumped up to that frame you would lose all unread messages.
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>I personally prefer the windiod option myself. I usually shift-click the links to get one, but it would be nice if the new window was smaller as you suggested.
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>>What if instead, the results went into the upper frame by default? I do like the option of creating a separate window. However, I would make it a small IE window that is a child of the current browser instance.