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Well it's not one big page but you can open each forum you are interested in in a different window and click between windows every so often scrolling the latest post pages in each forum to see what's moving on the different forums.....

Not perfect but offers an option to nothing at all.

Half the time I am here I am using my WebTV which will not open new windows, and the other half on my computer with it's original small monitor which is little better.

Now, of course, you should not program to your lowest common denominator and perhaps what we (jellybean, Stop Legal Plunder, sweetliberty, etc.) are asking is tougher programming than appears on the surface, but the addition of an "ALL Forums Latest Posts" page would seem to be a simple opt-in addition.

The "Home Page" I am sent to upon opening my browser now is the "News/Activism" Latest Post page. I (and many others) "stick" there. It is FR and, hence, why you get the "junk threads" posted there.

By having posts show up on TWO places (the "Latest Posts" page of it's individual category AND the all encompassing "ALL Forums Latest Posts" page) you satisfy the complaints off BOTH parties without changing the current dynamics...just a simple (?) addition.

[To our webmaster experts] Are we wrong here?

Good question but I think the following offers an answer at this time........

To: jellybean

Sorry, we do not have such a feature at this time. Do not know if we ever will.

315 posted on 11/23/2003 12:24 AM CST by Jim Robinson (Conservative by nature... Republican by spirit... Patriot by heart... AND... ANTI-Liberal by GOD!)

That answer was in response to the following question.......

Anyone opting in to the "ALL latest posts" would/should be aware that that's what they're gonna get. Therefore, they have nothing to complain about.

312 posted on 11/23/2003 12:23 AM CST by jellybean (:))

Thus at this stage it seems opening multiple windows or swithing between forums every so often is the only option...

You are correct...WebTV will only open one window at a time. However, I use the "Recent" key extensively and quite effectively to jump from one page to another, but that only goes so far. It will store only the last 12 pages visited. If there's a thread that I'm watching, but not commenting on, it can quickly get bumped off the recents page if I make a couple of comments to another thread. Then I have to search for it again. If it's on another forum, I have to go to that forum to find it. Not difficult to do, but seems an unnecessary step in what othterwise is a well set-up forum.

If the "ALL forum posts" option was available, I wouold choose that as my default starting page.

BTW, eddie, I'm impressed by the length of your responses. You always claimed you were a slow typist. I don't think that's the case anymore :)