# Sorry, newbie question

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorry-newbie-question/141454>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [December 9, 2002, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorry-newbie-question/141454 "2002-12-09T05:15:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![dauerbach](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c2a13f/32.png) [@dauerbach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dauerbach)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2002, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorry-newbie-question/141454/1 "2002-12-09T05:15:18Z")

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In another question someone suggested accessing thread 30041. How do I access a thread by number

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**Author:** ![Santos\_L\_Halper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/santos_l_halper/32/1_2.png) [@Santos\_L\_Halper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Santos_L_Halper)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2002, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorry-newbie-question/141454/2 "2002-12-09T05:20:49Z")

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If you look at the URL for this thread, the six digit number at the end represents the thread id. In this case it’s #149028. Go up and replace the 149028 part with 030041, and it’ll bring up the thread in question.

I don’t know if there’s any other way to call up a thread via it’s id number…

Eric

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**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2002, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorry-newbie-question/141454/3 "2002-12-09T05:22:21Z")

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It’s easy.

Type in the straight dope url followed by showthread.php?threadid=######

So, in your case: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=30041](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=30041)

E3

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**Author:** ![dauerbach](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c2a13f/32.png) [@dauerbach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dauerbach)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2002, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorry-newbie-question/141454/4 "2002-12-09T05:29:34Z")

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Thanks for the info.

Dave

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**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2002, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorry-newbie-question/141454/5 "2002-12-09T06:15:48Z")

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Since this is a question about this message board, I’ll move this thread to ATMB.