John Robinson has the unenviable job of keeping all the wild animals in this crazy zoo that we call "Free Republic" (reasonably) happy as he upgrades the forum software to reflect the realities of rapidly changing technology and our rather limited budget.
As I understand it, there are some WONDERFUL new cataloging and search functions coming - eventually.
Until then, the "bump list" technique that we used for the USO Canteen - i.e., posting a reply on each thread to one of the special "bump list" names, like USO Canteen - still works to collect threads of interest to previously defined groups. See:
Free Republic "Bump List" RegisterAnother one of my favorite tools for finding older FR "classic" threads is:
Posted on 9/30/01 4:46 AM Pacific by John Robinson
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/536123/postsand
Free Republic Search Engine *Experimental*
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Posted on 12/7/01 4:41 PM Pacific by John Robinson
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/586033/posts