Quote Originally Posted by eadz
.....I mean new messages since last session, and it will store the begining time of your current session to use to get the new messages..
OK, I'm still not getting it, since I can refresh a forum after I've read some new message and I only see the new ones that I have not read yet as new, not all the ones that were new when I open it, and not just ones that came in since I opened it.

But lets assume I'm just dense and lack some basic understanding here. Let me move on to a more important question. Clearly there is some sort of timer going on, since we all agree that if I open a group and come back a few hours later than messages that had been flagged as new will no longer be flagged as new for me. My problem is that this timer seems way too short - just a couple of hours or less. Knowing that this will happen has affected the way I use the site in two undesirable ways: I avoid visiting the site at all unless I expect to have some time to devote to it, and when I am on the site I find I spend more time than I would like (I don't go off and do other things, my previous mode of operation, since I don't want new mesages to "expire".) My question is, can this time interval that resets the new messages be changed, either by a setting in the individual's profile, or by a universal setting in the program, to a larger value? Two hours or less is just too short - I would hope for a value somewhere between 24 and 36 hours. That would give a user time to visit the site, see new messages, get called away (to dinner, to walk the dog, on any of those other little things called life) and still come back and not have new stuff expired, yet still allow the automatic expire thing to work as intended.