Either one would work for me, but the option sure would be nice. I also wish I could select individual threads (by checkbox, perhaps) to ignore or unignore, too. For some threads, the topics just don't interest me, even though they're in a forum I'm interested in. For others, they're so full of pix that I can't load them on my lousy rural dialup connection. (Sorry, thought I'd ride in on your coattails and put in a plug for a thread I tried to start a while back. Seems I was the only one interested?)