It's JUST a suggestion:

As a user preference individual forum or global sort options

When individual, each fora inherits from global, then you can select New Only, Show all, and sorts by options.

Just thinking my tendancy to want to see new stuff only in the Terrorism, Religion, Finance and such and Show all in Linux, Windoze, Open Forum etc... then sort by newest in one or two of those but by original order in others...

It is just a thought, but would save tons of Bandwidth with me at least... seeing how my home address is #5. Sure it would help others as well...

Your call Scott. Ask if ya dunna understand.