>>>I've done this more than once: Log on then realize that what I wanted to do was do the "Last Logon" option. Since I didn't, now I don't see all the messages I wanted to and have no way to do so. I try to use the 1 - 4 buttons in the toolbar, but can't quite understand what the result sets are because sometimes it will show messages I've already seen and other times it seems not to.
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>>>Is there an option for accessing UT so as to act as if it was (whatever date) and my first time in on that date?
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>>Renoir,
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>>PUTM have the "time warp" option. For us others, there are some interesting options, like seeing messages for a specific date and filtering for new threads, looking at active threads for the last two days, looking for unanswered messages within the last 10 days.
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>>Messages for a certain day typically return about 400 hits. I want to see, say, messages after 17:00 UTC, since that is when I last logged in. This, I believe, isn't completely solved, even with time warp. I have to weed through all messages for a day, since they are sorted by category, not by datetime.
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>>Hilmar.
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>Ok, that answered a lot! I'm still unclear what the 1 - 4 buttons are supposed to return. If I click on "2" which is "Get all messages since yesterday" will it show me ALL posts since yesterday or is it only posts that are still active or something else. I expect to see every message posted since yesterday at 12am UT time, but it doesn't seem to do that.
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>Renoir

1: Get all messages for today. This works as I expect.

2: Never used this. Instead, I click on the calendar (fifth button from left), and look at messages for a specific date, e.g., yesterday.

3 and 4: I don't use these either.

The next two buttons are the ones I mentioned previously, and they are extremely useful to get "up-to-date" quickly.

The monthly archive has interesting options, like "Messages where I am involved" and "Only the first message of the thread". The monthly archive (where you actually select messages for a specific date) seems to be completely accesible for us others.

Hilmar.