>>I'm now seeing some behaviour which is different from before. I'm mentioning it here because it looks like it's the "flip side" of Jim's earlier comment.
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>>At the moment, the only forum I have specified for automatic expansion is the VFP forum. During my current session the total number of new messages went up to 14. I hit the "refresh" button at the top, which showed 2 new messages (expanded) in VFP, 11 in Chatter and 1 in .NET (the latter both collapsed). I expanded both Chatter and .NET and looked at those messages as well.
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>>When I hit the "Refresh" button again, it now shows 12 new messages rather than 0. The 11 Chatter messages and 1 .NET message are not removed. As time goes by I think this number is going to keep increasing since there seems to be no way to reset it.
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>>As I said earlier, this is probably the flip side of Jim's earlier comments. It looks like another setup flag may be required, something like "automatically mark messages as READ in collapsed forums". This could potentially be put against individual forums, in the Forums setup page.
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>Our messages cross posted. See my other reply I just did to Jim.

Ah, I just saw that. So, when you click on the forum name, it resets the new message count. I was thinking it would reset on hitting the "+" sign next to it. OK, that's fine now I know how it works. You'll need to advertise that feature because it's not obvious.