This thread has generated several good suggestions for making it easier to find new replies to old nodes including changes to newest nodes and writing your own client.

I thought you'd like to know that my newest nodes client xNN has this capability. In threaded mode, only nodes whose parent is a new node are threaded in nested lists, replies to older nodes are listed in a seperate table after the threads. Since each reply in the 'replies to older nodes' table also has a link to its parent node represented by node id, it's easy to tell how old each reply's parent is.

Here's some sample output from today:

Replies to older nodes
parent	title	author	date
60239	Re: Browser Timeout	Rhandom	15:24:28 06/13
87423	Re: (Kidding) XP-whoring HOW-TO	John M. Dlugosz	15:13:23 06/13
2589	Answer: how do I make my perl script readable by a browser with windows 98?	QandAEditors	14:42:16 06/13
2589	Answer: how do I make my perl script readable by a browser with windows 98?	QandAEditors	14:03:01 06/13
63085	Re: ALL YOUR BASES ARE BELONG TO ::gets shot::	scottstef	13:32:38 06/13
31962	Re: RE: Date::Calc	Graham	11:58:39 06/13
31944	Re: Date::Calc	ishmael	08:25:30 06/13
85781	Re: Problems with 500 server errors	Anonymous Monk	03:30:16 06/13

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