Can I beleive it? nope

[JethroUK]

I've been using newsgroups with O/Express for 2000 years (or so) ) and a
big problem for anyone using it regularly was the red highlighting of any
group that contained replies

Highlighting was fine, but once you selected the group to answer a post it
changed to convention inverted selection (no reply highlight) so to find out
whther there anymore replies you had to select a different group (then wait
for it too download headers) to see if it was 'still' red -
arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!

Ah! Here comes Vista with it's new kewwwwwwl squillion colour aero desktop -
instead of using old-fashioned colour invertion for highlighting newsgroups
it uses a neat 'ice-blue-see-thru' glassy effect (Vista can show any colour
you like under the ice) - Great - it can leave groups containing a reply in
Red

yeah right - too easy

 

[PvdG42]

I've been using newsgroups with O/Express for 2000 years (or so) ) and a
big problem for anyone using it regularly was the red highlighting of any
group that contained replies

Highlighting was fine, but once you selected the group to answer a post it
changed to convention inverted selection (no reply highlight) so to find
out whther there anymore replies you had to select a different group (then
wait for it too download headers) to see if it was 'still' red -
arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!

Ah! Here comes Vista with it's new kewwwwwwl squillion colour aero
desktop - instead of using old-fashioned colour invertion for highlighting
newsgroups it uses a neat 'ice-blue-see-thru' glassy effect (Vista can
show any colour you like under the ice) - Great - it can leave groups
containing a reply in Red

yeah right - too easy

Have you tried (worked in OE and works in Windows Mail) simply clicking on
the watch column icon to sort your watched threads to the top of the list,
to reveal all that have unread articles, then clicking on the Sent column
header to return to original order when you finish?