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Date Posted: 00:46:47 12/16/01 Sun
Author: underpar
Subject: Re: Old Thread on Forum
In reply to: Wiff Them 's message, "Old Thread on Forum" on 07:09:37 12/15/01 Sat

>In an Email I wrote as a reply:
>
>>A very lengthy message with numerous replies
>>and sub replies found its way onto the recent
>>postings, even though it is dated 8/28. It
>>is very annoying having to scroll through
>>this to get to recent replies. (on the NG forum).
>>
>>John F.
>
>The way I have the forum software set to work
>automatically, by default is that if a reply is made
>to an archived thread it goes to the top of the first,
>main forum page just like a reply to a thread on the
>main page does. This is the only way I know of to
>show all the threads, which have the newest replies,
>first.
>
>Since you complained I took a look at it. The
>particular reply that brought the thread back from the
>dead was from "underpar" on 12-10-01. Since his
>message wasn't that noteworthy, I started to manually
>re-archive the thread and first deleted replies to
>that message that asked how it got back on top, etc.
>-- including your message(s). After doing the
>deletions, I looked in the forum software and couldn't
>find any place where I could manually re-archive just
>one thread. Sorry.
>
>Anyway, it is moving down now, so maybe it won't be
>such a bother.
>
>Wiff

Wiff
Although I did reply to this thread ,it was already there and
I did not notice the date on it .There must have been some other screw up besides me.

underpar

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