I'm gonna make this short and to the point. However, I hope you find that this suggestion may be worthwhile...

How about having the time a /msg was sent displayed next to the /msg the user received? This would, for me at least, put some of the /msg's in "historical context".

Zenon Zabinski | zdog | zdog7@hotmail.com

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(tye)Re: Boosting /msg's (in time?)
by tye (Sage) on Nov 27, 2000 at 21:19 UTC

    FYI, if you really want this now, you can go to private message xml ticker and view the page source. You can split the big number in the time="" field at the obvious points to get when the message was sent. For example, time="20001122092728" would be 2000/11/22 09:27:28.

            - tye (but my friends call me "Tye")