Ah, that's a pretty good easy way to get the message id... thanks Les

Certainly quicker than doing a forum search, which was the only way I could think.

(Other option is do do an inspect element or equivalent in the browser and faff about looking for the name of the anchor tag - but that's maybe getting a little advanced!)

Oh, by the way, I think you can omit the &page argument from the url, by the looks of it.

So linking to your post above there would just be:

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/showthread.php?thread_id=2856202#message_3985235