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[WTMHouston]

The back button was what I typically used, but the right click is a great idea. Thanks. Learn something new (and in this case useful) everyday.

When there are a large quantity of unread messages, back is normal since one is already aware of the gap and is thinking about getting back to where one started. In my proffered situation, one thinks (although not consciously) that the message being posted is the next message and unless one thinks to look at the numbering sequence upon completion and submission of the post, one would not notice the gap and thus continue to think that there was no need to go back. In this situation, I am not sure that a new window would help since the old window would not show any new messages since the count would have been at the end of the thread count when respond was hit.

Just thinking out loud, I assume that responses do not get post numbers (either for the site or the thread) until "submit" is hit. Would it be functional to assign them post numbers as soon as "respond" was hit, rather than waiting for submit. I can guess that this might cause problems with the thread counts when someone thinks twice about responding (or gets disconnected in the middle of drafting a post) and cancels it instead. Maybe not, though -- just a thought. If that remedy would not cause problems then it may solve the minor inconvenience of missing some messages by taking a long time to draft a response.

PS -- is "eben" a word?

Troy