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To: AugustWest who wrote (12604)2/2/2002 6:48:32 PM
From: David Lawrence  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 23786
 
Yes. It was I who suggested to him that he redesign his database so that each post had and static absolute record number, instead of the thread/sequence ordinal number scheme. It seemed obvious to the old COBOLer in me. :-)

True, it impacted the art of grubbing, but it also eliminated a lot of confusion about URLs that wound up pointing to the wrong post.