The scrolling to the bottom thing would work great, or what about inverting the order? Say most recent thing said on top instead of on bottom? Another idea for the Messages UI would be instead of have it show the whole conversation amongst the people, have it expandable. That way if you're having quite a few heavy sms conversations with more than one person you don't have to scroll forever in each direction, etc. Not really a big deal to me, I don't ever get THAT heavy into it :P

I'm curious if other people's messages get marked read on the GV site if they just refresh the DC Messages tab. Would help me figure out if I'm still broken somewhere, or if it's a hit or miss sort of thing. Again, thanks a TON epage!