>There should be a way for a user to say "OK, let's see what's been posted in the last 3 weeks in Mere Mortals" and be able to see in ONE list all the messages posted during that period.
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>Another example where this would be extremely useful is in my case. I would benefit greatly from being able to download all the posts in Mere Mortals for the past year and be able to run searches locally as opposed to having to wait for the server to respond.

Ok, please, add this suggestion in the Universal Thread suggestion document.