I do not know about TMF, but on SI, the "new" message count does not change and is not affected until you click on the message count in the subjects folder.
The process you describe for TMF works so long as you are accessing the messages in order. For example, if you have 30 new messages and access the 15th message via a link from another thread, the new message count would incorrectly show 15 rather than 30?
On SI, if you happen to look at 5 messages, the new message count still shows 30 -- even though 5 of the 30 messages have been read.
IMO, I would rather have it still show 30 new messages even though 5 had been read, than have it only show 15 and cause me to skip 15 of them or (as on IHUB) show 0 new messages and cause me to skip all 30.
As for the coding and programming, I have no clue what makes any of these alternatives work.
Troy
Same PS Edit -- is IHUB really misspelled?
Troy
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