Download message just to mark group read

[benway.com]

Very annoying to have to click (and download) a newsgroup message, just 
to be able to mark the group read.  Quite frequently, I browse the 
message titles, decide there's nothing to read... yada yada..

Is this been filed as a bug yet?  I can never find anything on bugzilla.

If not, I'll file it.

cm