Night Owl,

Welcome to the Mudcat! Threads never die! Max has maintained every thread ever posted. Well, to be totally truthful, a few have been lost in system crashes.

If you go to the main forum page, you will see in the upper right hand corner area, just below the "Search the Digitrad Database" block, another small block marked "Age". The default is "1 day". Your screen, therefore shows all threads to which posts have been made in the previous 24 hours. If you click on the little arrow next to the box, you will see you can choose other time limits (up to "365 days"). If you select one of these and then click on the "Refresh Thread" button to its right, you will get all the threads which have had posts in that time period.

If you are looking for a specific old thread go to the top of the Main Forum page. You will see several phrases in blue just under the Mudcat Cafe logo. One says "Forum Search". If you click on it, it takes you to a typical search page where you can type in words or phrases and search the Thread database for them.

So threads never die. They lose currency when no one posts to them. So, when Catspaw said he was going to refresh those guitar threads, what he did was simply make a blank post to each of the threads giving them a current post.

I hope I have been clear enough, Night Owl. I will be happy to answer further questions if you have them.

Roger in Baltimore