Ken

Not true. You do have the choice but you prefer to exercise
that choice one particular way,

If I understand it correctly you have opted for "Hide Read
Messages" in combination with "Watch Read Messages".
This is a commonly used approach.

An alternative is Show All Messages, Group Messages by
Conversation toggling Replies to my Messages on and off.

Whilst the first approach brings to your attention the replies
to your own messages it can omit other replies in adjacent
sub-threads. The result is that the user can fail to realise
that another correspondent has answered the question
some time ago.

With Replies to my Messages enabled the threads
containing unread messages are immediately obvious.
If threads go off page you can easily realise someone
has replied because, having read all immediately visible
messages the status bar is still showing unread messages.

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Gerry
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"Ken Blake, MVP" wrote in message
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They are no longer there to see, so I do not have the choice of
looking at the previous messages in the thread.
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