> I have a quick question on how this BBS keeps track of what messages have
> been read and which are new since I last visited

> My hard drive crashed over the weekend and I had to get it replaced. I had
> backed up my favorites, personal files, and history directory but as I
> come back here all of the messages show up as unread.

The folder you missed was "cookies". It is kind of a bunch of marks on the wall where sites save information about where and when you have been. Wayne