Helpful hint (which everyone but me probably already knows, but here goes...):

rich r posted a URL that I suspect came from his list of Traced threads on Mudcat. For fun, I tried that URL. It just took me to a blank page, which is what I expected having had this problem many times. But if you edit the URL and change "threadID" to threadid, it works and you get to the thread.

Bill & I have whined to Max about this problem but ....

Rita