>>> I tried to retrieve older messages since earlier today so I could send a
>>>reply.
>>This was a fix we applied last night. This option was not supposed to be
>>available outside the Premier Universal Thread Membership.
>
>I understood that the search option was not available for non-registered members, but I would have thought that the ability to walk backward on the article tree/map was a basic necessity for any conferencing program....

I also agree with Garrett, looking at a map is a basic function as sometimes I need to look back up the tree...