Robbie Wilson's,

Do you know that on the forum page which lists the threads you can click on the number on the right hand side of the name of a thread and that takes you to the first 50 messages of that thread, and then the page gives you a row of number links to take you to the other pages of the thread. If you want to read the later messages first and the others in descending order, then click on the "d" next to the thread number.

That nifty trick was invented by the clever Mudcat elves so that one thread could be continued and new follow-up threads didn't need to be started.

I know that the numbers link and the "d" and their use is not really obvious but there is a note at the bottom of the page saying "* Click on the linked "Messages" numbers to view the thread split into pages (click "d" for chronologically descending)."

Try it and see.

Helen