Joe,

>That's just the problem, the main topic The Mere Mortals.NET Framework doesn't appear unless I select to "Get all messages since last month".

Each time you access the Universal Thread you only see messages that are new since the last time you logged in. If you want to see all messages (which would be rare), you can use the search screen to pull these up. Otherwise, you can use the "Time Warp" button to go "back in time" a specific number of minutes, hours, days, or months and view all messages posted since that time.

Regards,