Pointing to specific posts

[Stuart M]

I was working out how to provide a URL for a specific post on the Forum recently (as opposed to just pointing to a thread). Was trying to direct someone to an item which was near the bottom of a page, to save them time. The formula was:

1. Find the unique ID number of the post you want to point at. A way to do this is move the mouse over the "Report this post to a moderator" or "Logged" hotspots at the end of the post. The browser's status bar should show a URL address - the number at the end of that address is the post ID.

2. To provide a link to that specific post, use this URL:

http://www.cerocscotland.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&postid=999#post999

replacing 999 both times with the ID of the post you want to point at.

There's probably an easier way to do this, though - is there, moderators?

PS if you're really bored , this method helps you answer all-important questions like "What was the 1000th post?" etc.

[DavidY]

It looks like in the new version of the forum software there are new variants of this (although the old ones still seem to work too).

To link to a post, a URL of:
http://www.cerocscotland.com/forum/showthread.php?
p=49999#post49999 seems to work.

To link to a thread I think you can use:
A dance is just a dance...
t=260