Yes, I subscribe to threads and when I come in to read one I usually just stay in Hotmail while I read and post through eveything else in EoFF. That's the way I've always done it because I then know right away when something new has been posted because my mail window pops up...at least new in the threads that I've subscribed to...which is every thread that I've posted in, plus a few others. Now I get to see boxes or script.