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"New" is ill-defined. One of the glories of trn is that each registered person has a file which keeps track of which posts and comments they've seen.
On usenet, this was possible because each post was shown one at a time in ascii, which was fast enough to work even over a 56K connection.
I don't think there was any way to make such a system to work on the web without JavaScript.
A scheme like yours could work with user-specified dates for collapsing everything prior and/or with collapsing prior to when the person signed out for those who don't just leave tabs open. It isn't nearly as elegant as having personal accounts that track everything a person has read [1], but might be better than what we've got now.
[1] trn included a "set unread" option.
It is ill-defined, yes. Hm...
Something similar to Google Reader might be nice, with the ability to 'star' items, and track read, and mark unread. Now that I think of it, how about letting us make an rss feed out of a custom search and just view it in your favorite feed reader? That might be fairly simple.
edit: Perhaps there is a simple or low-resource web rss feed reader that we can integrate with our message inbox? This is an example, I'm sure there are others as well.
Edit - please disregard this post