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Subject: 
read/not read quirk on web interface?
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Date: 
Sun, 18 Oct 1998 14:49:01 GMT
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Am I seeing things, or is this behaviour what's happening?

Suppose I have read some, but not all of the messages in a group. Suppose
further that some of those messages are posted to multiple groups, and that
some of them I read while in another group.

Now consider the group message list, and the thread/tree view while in a
message.

I believe the following to be true:
A message I never read at all shows blue (unread) in both views
A message I read while in this group shows purple (read) in both views
A message I read in another group but not here shows blue in the list but
purple in the tree view.

Therefore, the tree view is more useful if what I care about is which messages
I have actually read.

This behaviour, if true, is an artifact of the web, not an error in coding. Or,
I could be seeing things.

Note carefully that there is no request for action attached to this post. :-)

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  Re: read/not read quirk on web interface?
 
(...) This is correct. The group listing ignores cross-posting x-refs. So if something is crossposted, it'll show up as two different articles in the web interface. But the thread view -is- smart enough to see cross-posting and only lists the (...) (26 years ago, 18-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)

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