You have the newest version of OE, but it appears that you are missing one
update. Check that out.

I think I got what you're saying, and there is nothing you can do about
that. One thing you could do is in View | Sort By, change it to Watch /
Ignore ant all your watched messages will be at the beginning of the list,
and the rest sorted by date as I assume they are now.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
Imperial Beach, CA


"jch" wrote in message
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Is there a newer version of OE than 6? On this particular laptop I'm
running XP Home. Also, I've always preferred OE as a newsreader over the
other options, eg Agent, Thunderbird, Mozilla, etc. I wonder though if
there is a different way to set OE so that I know when new contributions
have been made to watched threads. I like the way that OE highlights the
name of the newsgroup (turns it bold red) when there is new content, but
this doesn't appear when the cursor is already on that newsgroup name.
For example, I can go to
"microsoft.public.windows.initexplorer.ie6_outlook express" and get all the
new headers. But I don't know if watched threads have new content because
that newsgroup is currently highlighted by the cursor (ie in focus). The
red/bold displaying of the newsgroup name isn't visible unless I've
choosen another newsgroup. Then and only then can I see that a different
newsgroup has new content. I hope that makes sense. Any ideas? Thanks.