# Search by user name only goes to 500?

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/search-by-user-name-only-goes-to-500/246975
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**Created:** [May 25, 2004, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/search-by-user-name-only-goes-to-500/246975 "2004-05-25T12:20:18Z")
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### Author: ![Aeschines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aeschines/32/16251_2.png) [@Aeschines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aeschines)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2004, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/search-by-user-name-only-goes-to-500/246975/1 "2004-05-25T12:20:18Z")

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There’s no way to search beyond 500 posts in the past for a particular user?

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### Author: ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2004, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/search-by-user-name-only-goes-to-500/246975/2 "2004-05-25T18:47:26Z")

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Not that I’m aware of. If you’re just looking for your oldest posts, because you registered fairly recently, you could select “find posts from 3 months ago and older”. Once someone’s been here for more than 2 years, they can get their 500 oldest posts by selecting “sort results by x date in ascending order.”