Is there any point in this interface?

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No, my email does not do that. That is because when I open my inbox I can't read the messages without clicking on them. I can read the new messages when I click the "new messages" link, so not marking them as read is stupid.

Harmonic time Hoover!20:53, 21 November 2010

Imagine this scenario: You open Special:Newmessages, start reading them, and then halfway through you have to go somewhere so you shut down your computer. You come back later but the messages you didn't get to yet have also been marked as read, so good luck finding them again.

-- Nx / talk20:56, 29 November 2010

That scenario is contrived and you know it.

Harmonic time Hoover!12:29, 30 November 2010

Not if you have a lot of messages. You might not be able to read them all at once, and if you just reload Special:Newmessages, you'll lose the ones that were marked as read automatically without you having read them.

-- Nx / talk12:36, 30 November 2010