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[Walter Bright]

On 11/16/2011 7:39 AM, Adam Ruppe wrote:
> Walter Bright Wrote:
>> It's trivial with a news reader, because unread messages are in boldface.
>
> Which is possible because the messages are sorted linearly in the
> computer!
>
> When you do a newnews command in NNTP, you tell it a time, not
> a thread. Then it grabs everything since that time, and you know
> they are new.
>
>
> Hmmm.... that's an idea though. If it plopped down a "last checked"
> time cookie or url param, it could bold the new things on the web too.

That's not quite it. I do not read the newsgroup articles in a chronological 
order, so "unread" articles are most definitely not just the new articles since 
the last time I looked at the thread.