Can't search by message number/partial solution

[carolynwhite2]

--- In HPFGU-Feedback at yahoogroups.com, "carolynwhite2" 
<carolynwhite2 at a...> wrote:
> 
> This is a total nightmare. You can no longer pull up posts by number. 
> Or have I missed something?
> 
> Carolyn

..later

A very smart member of my catalogue group (dungrollin) has just pointed 
out that you can change the message number in the URL, hit go and thus 
go to a specific post.

It is the most god-awful stupid apology solution to an essential 
requirement for us, but it does work, and I thank her for her quick 
thinking.

These changes imposed without discussion by Yahoo Groups go a long way 
towards forcing this group towards becoming a chat community. That may 
be what the majority of members really want, but I totally deplore the 
development.

I hope that Admin will remonstrate and campaign in the most forceful 
way with Yahoo to restore not only the message number search facility, 
but also the simple ability to hit 'next' to get to the next 
numerically sequential message. Plus all the wasted white space 
bandwidth issues that others have brought up, and the bizarre design 
features arbitrarily imposed on groups.

Since the record of small communities winning fights with mega 
corporations is poor, this may be the moment to finally move the whole 
thing to a different host.

Carolyn