What it does: The designed behavior displays a blurb under the "Hello Username [ log out ]" text on the first page of the board, indicating if the user has new PMs.
How it does it: If the user is logged in, the routine opens their private message list, then counts the number of messages that have arrived since the user logged in.
Minimum IQ required: 100.
For the complete instructions:
http://solareclipse.net/Charles/pm_on_first_page_beta1.txt If you have problems installing it and post in this thread, you do so with the understanding that I can and will flame the living daylights out of you if you do something stupid.

EDIT: Link updated.
[ May 27, 2001 03:18 PM: Message edited by: Borg ]