New Format - Messages - Simple, Summary, Expanded

[kkersey_austin]

If you take a look at the URL you'll notice that it contains your
options for sort order and view (e.g. simple, summary, or expanded),
even when you move from the message index to viewing a individual
message. So the URL for a message depends on how you got there. 

To further complicate things, if you follow one of the links at the
bottom of a message to other messages in the thread, the URL
mysteriously loses all that option info and just has the message
number.

It's your browser that keeps track of URLs you have recently visited
and colors those links, so if the URL for the link to the message is
different from the one you used when you read the message, it won't
mark it as visted, i.e. read.

I can't remember exactly how Yahoo kept track of expanded vs. index
view before, but I don't think all those options tagged onto the URL
followed when you went to individual messages.

A good while back (couple of years, at least) I used to be able to
view an entire message thread inline - like expanded view - by hacking
an option onto the end of the URL. That's one functionality that I
really missed when it went away and I'm hoping that with all the
mucking about they've been doing they will inadvertently reactivate
that unofficial feature. If any of you figure that out, let me know!
It was great for reading old discussions from the archives.

Karen, but not that Karen, another one. :-)