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>>That's the way it works. You should be able to see all the messages since you last logged on or you retrieved new messages using the icon at the top. If you don't read all the messages while you're logged on, then you won't get another chance to view them, unless you're a PUTM.
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>Somehow it does not quite work for me. Here is an example of how I see the problem.
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>Say I log in at 8 am today. I see that someone posted a message, a question. I don't know the answer but would be interested in the solution to the problem.
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>Then 2 days later I log in and I see a message, deep into the thread opened 2 days ago. Then I can see the entire thread of messages by clicking the thread button at the bottom of the message. But somehow I didn't see any of the replies to the original message posted 2 days ago.
>And if I didn't see this message, I could have missed the entire thread.

Any response to the question will appear as a reply to you. Click on the button "Get all the replies to your messages" to see these replies. To the right of this button, you should see a number, indicating how many new messages you have.

The replies to the replies to your original question will not be included, unless somebody explicitly placed you on the "send copy to" list.

Hilmar.