That sounds like a cool idea, no editing of the text would be needed.

I wonder if anyone is listening. :-)

>Here's an idea. When I want to post a message# link I go to the message, highlight the message #xxxxxx from the header and paste it in my new message.
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>If the header was slightly changed to remove the spaces and add the date, you highlight the whole line and paste it. You would get the Section, Title, Thread#XXXXX, Message#XXXXXX and date. All the info non-putm and putm need to get to the message. See the following:
>[Chatter] Re: UT Wishlist -- Basic members search by Thread# Thread #289651 Message #289724
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>How's that sound?
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>>A possible solution:
>>For PUTM's, the thread# and message# links will display. But for non PUTM's the UT parser could convert this to display the thread title and date (without a hyperlink). This would save work for the PUTM's, still encourage people to sign up to be a PUTM and still allow non PUTM's to use the calendar mode to find messages (which is how they must do it).
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>>Of course this may be difficult to implement or resource intensive.