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Message: <blockquote data-quote="2old4this" data-source="post: 574" data-attributes="member: 174998">The question was raised as to whether the "new" marker should only exist for a limited time. See http://www.satellites.co.uk/scripts/dcforum/DCForumID21/9.html#The tag "New" indicates all posts in a forum that have been posted since the last time the forum was "marked" as read by the user. So "new" does not (necessarily) mean "recent".This has the advantage that readers can decide themsleves when they have "finished" with a forum (ie read and if desired responded to posts). It's a pity that one cannot mark individual posts as read (rather than whole forums). But that's life...2old</blockquote>