Thanks, Calif_Sue, sorry it was the initial notification that I meant. I didn't get the notice when I posted that they'd been notified. Trish I guess it's just the way I use NGA, I don't watch threads and I don't go to the home page. I just have the forums bookmarked. My choice admittedly but maybe I'm not the only one, and I also only recently clued in that I even could watch a thread. I don't find I need to watch threads though for the most part, it only becomes an issue when I want to revisit one that disappeared.