Bypassing the navagation links on the web page also bypasses the functions that update the new message counts.

Well.... yes and no.

Using the browser's "back" button does cause the web page display to be "out of synch" with what's actually read, but the messages themselves are flagged as read, and if you exit the bbs and come back again, you will see the previously read messages are now flagged as having been read -- except apparently for the last-read message in each forum.

tanstaafl.

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