# Was there another way to handle Chippewa in Michigan? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [January 5, 2009, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-there-another-way-to-handle-chippewa-in-michigan/480002 "2009-01-05T22:00:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Jamaika\_a\_jamaikaiake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7993a0/32.png) [@Jamaika\_a\_jamaikaiake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jamaika_a_jamaikaiake)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2009, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-there-another-way-to-handle-chippewa-in-michigan/480002/41 "2009-01-13T19:28:33Z")
> [@Una\_Persson](#): > > How totally beyond all help does one have to be to not understand that after they sign up for a Guest account on a message board and create a new thread on a message board that they are in fact posting on a message board? A bit of a hijack (and not defending **CiM** ), but: I had never used a message board before this place. I’d been online since 1994. Been reading SD since 1998. At the bottom of a column it said “comment on this column.” But when I clicked the link and got [this page](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/forumdisplay.php?f=1), and none of the topics were about the thread I was reading, I was mighty confused. Fast forward to 2005, and my fiance shows me SDMB… ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2009, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-there-another-way-to-handle-chippewa-in-michigan/480002/42 "2009-01-14T07:16:02Z")
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