>>You can always limit the result to N (say, 500) top records.
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>The limit is at 2000 presently. But, using that or using the calendar to do the same presently on a popular category might give about the same number of messages when someone click at the bottom to view all messages for all days at the same time.

Interesting, I never paid attention (and didn't know) about this last link. It does show all messages in a month for the forum (we can filter by category).

But still it does not seem to allow date range or does it?