"I didn’t see ME (Oct 3, 1998) there."
It only posts FReepers that have commented on the thread. You hadn't commented yet.. (Look on the very bottom and you can see how many posts there were at that time.)
Here is the current one:
"How is this data acquired?"
By using the Free Republic Tree Viewer, which is very handy. (cynwoody made the script specifically for FR)
The Poster Report is at the top of each thread, like this:
It also makes the threads much easier to read by breaking the thread into linked posts (the example below is from this thread):
