The host for the web site has changed a couple of times, and unforuntately the software we use for the Forum stores the actual IP address of links in the post (instead of using relative URLs). So all of these links are broken.

To Answer your questions:

1) "Mouse over" a link you want to view and not the post number at the end of the URL. Then, in the address bar of your browser, copy the URL of the current post. Past this into a new browser window and replace the post number (with the one you want to view).

2) There are no posts before December 1999, that is when we started these Forums.