When you want to call someone's attention to another message in the same thread, a good way to do it is to construct a link like this:

<a href=#0000000>Click here</a>

Where "0000000" is the message number of the message you want them to see.

This kind of link executes faster because it doesn't make your browser reload the whole thread from Mudcat's server. That's unnecessary because the whole thread should already be in your computer's memory, so the browser repositions itself instantly to display the correct message.

For example, this link takes you to a message up above called "A Lesson on Line Breaks."

I constructed that link like this: <a href=#82435>this link</a>

This kind of link doesn't work—it doesn't go anywhere—if the required message is not in the thread you're currently looking at (or if you're looking at only a 50-message page of a very long thread, and the target message is in a different page.)

(Does anyone still use paging—I mean, other than people who post to those absurdly long BS threads? I assume paging was set up to help people with very slow internet connections. Does anyone still have a connection so slow that they are forced to use paging, even on music threads?)