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Not a good idea IMO. When several messages are marked NEW and one refreshes the page, why would all those new messages loose their NEW mark? I probably refresh before I've read them all.
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Didn't think about that. However, my original request is that when they click on the "Refresh" link to the right of the "New Message" link in each forum, then it would be nice if it cleared the new icon for those pages. Another option is to change the color for the newer ones that appear from the last time you refreshed. The problem is for extremely long threads, most of the posts have the new icon, and I click on refresh to see when a new one arrives based on an email I received. If all the posts remain new, then I really can't differentiate them until I read them all, which isn't always my intent.
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The way I see it, CP is not keeping individual history, the NEW marks are just a comparison of your visit time with each and every message creation time; storing such per member would yield truckloads of new booleans. No one is keeping track what you did and didn't read on a page. Furthermore, the layout options include "expand all" and "expand one" so it becomes just impossible.
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True, but it appears that it currently does something like "if within a certain amount of time, mark as new". What I would like to see is "if within an epsilon amount of time, mark as 'just in'" (new icon of a different color), else "if within a certain amount of time, mark as new". That should certainly be doable without major modification to the code. Heck, the epsilon could also be setup as a personal preference.
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So a "new" icon and a "just posted" signifier?
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Exactly. Although, the text "just posted" might be a tad long. How about "new" vs "now"?
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that would be OK for me, as is the current situation.
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Please see this[^] post and its context. The post is not from me.
I realise that it is only a joke and am not offended by it but I do feel that the ability to do this sort of thing is somewhat undesireable, to say the least.
Henry Minute
Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain
Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?"
“I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
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Why not just change your id to Rajesh R Subramaniac and get some sweet revenge.
It's time for a new signature.
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I am above such childish pranks.
Besides, I didn't think of it. 
Henry Minute
Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain
Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?"
“I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
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Richard MacCutchan wrote: Subramaniac
Heights of innovation!
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Nevermind everybody, I've decided that this is really just funny and doesn't need any further attention. Thanks anyway!
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It's a fairly obvious imitation, though I'm not excusing it. We do already have in place tools that disallow spoofing another member's name by using alternate characters.
Edit: looks like we missed out on one of the alternate letters. I'll add it.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote: looks like we missed out on one of the alternate letters. I'll add it.
I wonder if you got all the letters, Chriﯼ Mﮫunder. 
Maybe an AI algorithm to detect similarities in letters would be appropriate (though probably entirely too much work).
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I think I got most of the ones that actually count.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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You might want to add one for a fairly convincing "r", Chris Maundeг. 
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Nice. I had ґ, but not г
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Can this be done completely? There are literally hundreds of letters that one could pick from the Unicode character map (which would resemble a given alphabet). I'm curious to know what would be the approach.
May be I can do hack tests after you're done implementing it? 
There are some really weird people on this planet - MIM.
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Shouldn't it be fixed user name ? or changes may have some delay like 2 hrs.
TVMU^P[[IGIOQHG^JSH`A#@`RFJ\c^JPL>;"[,*/|+&WLEZGc`AFXc!L
%^]*IRXD#@GKCQ`R\^SF_WcHbORY87֦ʻ6ϣN8ȤBcRAV\Z^&SU~%CSWQ@#2
W_AD`EPABIKRDFVS)EVLQK)JKQUFK[M`UKs*$GwU#QDXBER@CBN%
R0~53%eYrd8mt^7Z6]iTF+(EWfJ9zaK-iTV.C\y<pjxsg-b$f4ia> -----------------------------------------------
128 bit encrypted signature, crack if you can
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Hey man, I sincerely hope you didn't take it seriously.
I was wanting to just have some fun. And on the flip side, we've together shown Chris some more combinations that should be blocked.
There are some really weird people on this planet - MIM.
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Hey yourself, Rajesh.
No problemo. I actually thought it was pretty funny.
I only reported it because, as you say, it ought not to be possible, really.
Henry Minute
Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain
Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?"
“I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
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Henry Minute wrote: it ought not to be possible, really
Not for the nerds of our kind. 
I think I'll do some hack tests and report Chris of the outcome after they implement the fix.
There are some really weird people on this planet - MIM.
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XML Parsing Error: no element found Location: http://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Edit.aspx?fid=2605&select=3601196&floc=/Forums/2605/The-Back-Room.aspx&action=m Line Number 1, Column 1: ^
fix: copy post, go back to message, hit reply paste post, hit post button
Opacity, the new Transparency.
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Sounds like the same White Page bug others have seen.
This has been a tricky one. There are two issues I'm looking at (well, 1 I have half a dozen people looking at, and 1 I'm pondering very, very deeply).
Neither of them really make sense.
We'll fix it, though.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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