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   BillHartmann | Apr 16, 2002 06:22pm | #1

   I *think* that it only shows a limited number and those are spread amount the several folders. I don't know what the logic is for how many are shown in each folder.

   If you read some of those show and then hit the "go" button by the Show Discussion option box it will refresh the list and you will see some of the older unread one.

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   Mugsy | Apr 16, 2002 10:57pm | #5

   It  defaults to show the 50 discussion threads with the most recent posts.  So, if a discussion has a message you haven't read, but was posted several days ago, it wouldn't be among the 50 "newest".  The "Next 50" link at the bottom of the left hand pane will keep scrolling through all discussions with "Unread Messages" if that is what you have selected at the top of the left hand pane (it defaults to this upon refresh of anykind)

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   PhillGiles | Apr 16, 2002 06:23pm | #2

   Yes, at first I thought that topics were "disappearing" just when evesdropping on a conversation became interesting because one or more of the malisoneurs became a little too eager to top up their frequent fulmintor miles. Then I discovered that these conversations had merely ended up in Coventry - beats me why.

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   Phill Giles

   The Unionville Woodwright

   Unionville, Ontario

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   JohnSprung | Apr 16, 2002 08:52pm | #3

   Phill --

   For the non-British, you'll have to explain what ending up in Coventry means.

   -- J.S.

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   PhillGiles | Apr 16, 2002 10:36pm | #4

   "Sent to Coventry" is a common expression throughout the English-speaking world and is best known as a punishment handed out by union locals, school cliques, etc. where it takes the form that no-one is supposed to talk to the punishee. Watchers of the Carry-On movies, The Two Ronnies, The Bennie Hill Show, etc. saw that it was an oft used comic devise; however, not that many people (particularly since the decline in the teaching of history) remember the real history of the phrase:

   St. Johns Church, commonly known as Bablake Church, was completed in 1350 in the City of Coventry.

   It became a prison for hundreds of the troops of The Duke of Hamilton during the Civil War -1647. The People of Coventry were strongly Puritan and were loyal to the parliamentary cause. Such was their loyalty indeed that they shunned all forms of fraternisation with the prisoners who were thus completely ignored. And so it was the phrase "sent to Coventry" was born.

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   Phill Giles

   The Unionville Woodwright

   Unionville, Ontario

   Edited 4/16/2002 3:39:37 PM ET by Phill Giles