How did you do that link “comment#217” ?
PM about that coming your way.
You click on the comment number, and then copy and paste the url.
And this is the formula to find posts by a particular freeper:
http://freerepublic.com/tag/by:mears/index?tab=comments;brevity=full;options=no-change
in cases where you can’t find the freeper on the forum at that time. I used your name. Obviously one can substitute any freeper’s name.