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I've been thinking about this for a while, and I think the get script could have a button created by a server-side include or something. That button would hyperlink to an internal anchor that specifies the last time the user read articles. If you press a different button (to go to current discussion) then it would zip you past the articles that you haven't read, and you would end up at the most recent stuff.
I don't think there's a problem with the ordering of the articles, but it is a pain to have to scroll past the old article titles that you've already seen. Reverse ordering the articles would accomplish that, but it affects the way the discussion is entered by latecomers. It would be just as (well, one click more...) convenient to add a button that puts you at the frontline.
Adding the date feature does something much more. It allows a user to pick up more or less where he left off. That's cool, because it could either go by the date the user last responded, or it could go by the last date the user read articles. It would allow the user to skip past old stuff, and get right to the middle, if that's where he left off.
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Solution to annoynace from oldest-first order of responses 
Reversing Threads?
(Randy Cosby)
Other solutions possible too
(Daniel M LaLiberte)
