To: ralfph who wrote (2424 ) 12/19/2001 11:14:53 PM From: marcos Respond to of 4409 That was a gimme, that line, a perfect setup ... plus Sarge beat me to it - #reply-16812796 ... he knows ole 49r from the olden days when she was blowing hard here on SI, having previously won the Shrillest Whacko On Prodigy contest Looking up old posts - well it used to be easier back in the Dryer days of real SI, when there were hundred-ranges ... but it is still possible, somewhat more tedious that's all .... ok, so we're looking for the Francisco thread to find her self-confessed pump 'n dump, right ... so we put 'fgx' or 'francisco' down in the search box below, click 'subject titles only', click search and voilá - Subject 10283 [which may be shortened using #Subject-xxx] Now that gives us the fourty most recent posts only ... so, see just between the header/quote and the start of the posts there, how there's a box there that says 'go to reply # __ ' ? ... we want to start at the beginning, so we put the number 1 into that box, hit the enter key, and bingo - Subject 10283 [this doesn't shorten so well maybe] That gives us the first fourty, we can hit 'next 40' and work our way through, or alternatively we could start in the middle with some sort of ranging process to narrow down a date range ... in this case the thread seems to have started only a week or so before her devious little operation du jour [i suspect she dumped into generated enthusiasm on Monday 03 March '97] .... of course from any post we can go to a different post number on the same thread, by putting its list number in the little box to the top right of the post and tapping enter ... also with notable posts that we record with the proven pencil-and-old-envelope method, we can simply use its universal SI locator number preceded by '#reply-' ... for instance - #reply-921973 [notable for the pumping of fgx but also for that of aas.v, and for the reference to her website, where, it has been rumoured, the most hypey of all her self-serving self-aggrandising promotional material were posted, and now erased of course] Then when we find gems, really good ones, we post them here - #Subject-52165 - along with a contradictory statement of hers, with the urls to both .... easy and fun, and yes kids do try this at home .... cheers