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What on earth are you talking about? You don't click on CodeProject's website to read email messages, you read them in your own email client.
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Richard MacCutchan wrote: You don't click on CodeProject's website to read email messages, you read them in your own email client.
You need to pay closer attention to your email messages.
See the link at the end of the message that says "To reply, click here."? That opens the reply at CP's site. At that point, CP knows (a) who you are and (b) that you've just read a CP message that's marked unread in CP's database. The server should clear the post's unread bit, because the post is no longer unread.
Clear enough now?
/ravi
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote: You need to pay closer attention to your email messages.
You obviously don't understand how email works. The unread flag is held in your inbox not in CodeProject's database, also there is no connection between the two.
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I think Ravi means that CP should mark the red CP notification at the top of the page as read, if you click on the link to the same message/question/... from your mail message.
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Thank you. ![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
/ravi
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<sigh> Let it go, Richard. You clearly have no idea what I'm talking about... 
/ravi
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote: You clearly have no idea what I'm talking about.
Exactly so, a clearer explanation may have helped.
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Now that is a feature that could be sold $$$ to spammers. Let me know if a solution is found to that, relying on other technology than telekinesis.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
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Rage wrote: Let me know if a solution is found to that, relying on other technology than telekinesis.
Looks like you both have misunderstood my point.
/ravi
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I think I understand your point: if you click on the link to a message/question/answer/... in your mail message, CP should mark the red notification (referring to that message/question/...) at the top of the page as read, right?
If you mean that, then I agree.
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He does.
Keep Clam And Proofread
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And it was delicious.
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Thanks.
There are also other bugs related to the unread posts counter that I'm investigating. Will post an analysis soon.
/ravi
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That would be nice.
FOR EVERYONE ELSE: THERE IS A LINK AT THE END OF REPLY EMAILS THAT TAKES YOU TO THE MESSAGE THAT PROMPTED THE REPLY. CLICKING THAT SHOULD CLEAR THE UNREAD FLAG. RAVI IS NOT TALKING ABOUT MESSAGES IN HIS EMAIL CLIENT!
Gawd, people can be thick sometimes, can't they?
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And it was delicious.
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Now, now... 
/ravi
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Brisingr Aerowing wrote: CLICKING THAT SHOULD CLEAR THE UNREAD FLAG. RAVI IS NOT TALKING ABOUT MESSAGES IN HIS EMAIL CLIENT!
Which unread flag, and why didn't he say so?
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Richard MacCutchan wrote: <layer>Which unread flag, and why didn't he say so?
The post's unread flag. I did. Can't help it if you chose to not read the entire post.
/ravi
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote: The post's unread flag.
Quite, which would, to most people, refer to the flag maintained by one's email client.
Ravi Bhavnani wrote: Can't help it if you chose to not read the entire post.
I did read it, but nowhere did you mention that you were referring to the drop down list that appears when you click on the little number to the left of your name in a CodeProject window. Which, for the record stated:
Quote: When I receive an email notification of a reply to my post, I click the link in the message to view the reply. However, my list of unread messages remains unchanged, requiring me to have to manually clear the unread flag. Clicking the link in the email should clear the post's unread flag.
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Richard MacCutchan wrote: which would, to most people, refer to the flag maintained by one's email client.
Really? I've never known anyone refer to an entry in an email client's list of messages as a "post". 
Richard MacCutchan wrote: nowhere did you mention that you were referring to the drop down list that appears...
I wasn't. I was referring to the list of unread posts shown when you click on the number - i.e. the UI where you manually mark some (or all) posts as being read.
/ravi
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote: I've never known anyone refer to an entry in an email client's list of messages as a "post".
Well you're obviously not British.
Ravi Bhavnani wrote: I was referring to the list of unread posts shown when you click on the number
Well perhaps you should have said so in the first place. I'm afraid my crystal ball is a bit cloudy today.
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Richard MacCutchan wrote: Well you're obviously not British.
Ah... I see your confusion. When I was a kid I used to refer to snail mail as "post", but after having moved to the US (several decades ago) refer to is as just "mail".
But I've never encountered a software engineer (British or otherwise) to confuse the noun "post" (which is accepted terminology for a message in a forum) with an email message, until now.
/ravi
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I wasn't confused, but your title and content was ambiguous.
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Yes, I surmised you found the title and content of my post (BTW, by "post" I mean my entry in this forum, not an email message I may or may not have sent) to be ambiguous.
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Which you could easily have explained in response to my first message, rather than chasing me down this blind alley.
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Recently there have been two instances in which an answer I posted to a Q&A question vanished.
The first case is explained rather easily: I paused while writing the answer to go and write some code and verify something, and, by the time I had submitted my answer, the question had been taken down. I assume that the CP server has better things to do than to flag an answer-in-progress and block a question being closed.
The second case is more interesting because my answer was submitted, and the question was taken down after my submission. I thought that once an answer was submitted, the original question would not be taken down for any reason.
I was able to recover my rather lengthy answer from Google's web-cache: [^].
And, this was the thread I replied to, now reported as "Sorry, the item you requested could not be found.": [^].
My opinion is that once an answer is submitted and then posted on CP, the question, and answer(s), should not be taken down.
Clarification ?
thanks, Bill
Google CEO, Erich Schmidt: "I keep asking for a product called Serendipity. This product would have access to everything ever written or recorded, know everything the user ever worked on and saved to his or her personal hard drive, and know a whole lot about the user's tastes, friends and predilections." 2004, USA Today interview
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