Peter Lairo wrote:
> Duane Clark wrote:
>
>> Peter Lairo wrote:
>>
>>> Imagine accidentally missing the *tiny* dropdown and hitting the main
>>> button and having *all* your messages marked as read - and no way to
>>> undo that?
>>
>
>
>> And even if it was clicked accidentally, so what?
>
>
>
> Well, I sure don't want to manually go through up to 10,000 threads to
> find the ones I haven't read yet. ;)
>
> And sorting by date completely messes up the "context" in which a post
> was made - so that is a poor option at best.
>
You must be using it in a different way from me. Even in a newsgroup
with moderately heavy traffic (c.o.l.misc), when I open the group, there
are 150 or so messages, and far fewer threads displayed. When I mark all
read, the exact same number of threads remain displayed in exactly the
same form, except that now the are not highlighted. So I still only have
50 or so to sort through. I admit to being puzzled how you use it that
would cause the problem you are describing. Are you for some reason not
using "View->Messages->Threads with Unread"?
And frankly, nothing in any newsgroup that I read is so profound that I
don't want to miss it :-)
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