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Originally Posted by Fredkc

I have been doing something, on my own, since the 2nd day of this thread. I have kept a complete running copy of just Bill Ryan's posts, complete with all links, etc.

Great job. I did the same but I used an obscure vBulletin feature for it. I just bookmarked this URL:
http://projectavalon.net/forum/searc...threadid=17977

Then you just click on each link titled "Re: Bill Ryan's thread" to read the entitre post from Bill.

To get the link is a little tricky though because a vBulletin search has an ID and it expires. So instead you want the URL (above) that creates the cached search. To filter any discussion by poster, go to the forum where you see all the threads. The number of replies column for the thread is actually a link. Clicking on it opens a popup window in which you see all posters in the thread and the number of posts they did. This number of posts is the link I posted above to filter Bill's posts in this thread. If you click on this link, it closes the popup window and creates a cached search. If you right-click and copy or bookmark it, you have the link I posted above. Does that make sense?

Here's THEWATCHER replies in his thread:
http://projectavalon.net/forum/searc...hthreadid=4106

And Astralwalker's:
http://projectavalon.net/forum/searc...hthreadid=8441

They show in reverse chronological order by default so you get the last one on top. From a favorite in your browser, it becomes rather easy and fast to follow the posts of just one member in a specific thread, and to check frequently whether he posted, without actually going through the other replies.