Dave: the full URL of a given post includes the thread ID number. For example:

http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=79013#1429334

indicates the URL and then the parameter called thread ID which in this case is 79013.

If you were to change that number to a lower one at random, and leave off the #xxxxx part to the right of the thread ID number, you would end up looking at some random thread. IIRC, it doesn't go all the way down to 001, but you can fool around abnd see what you come up with.

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