The problem is that the board software is cookie-crazy. It generates anything up to six cookies per post. It wasn't written, it was served up with a knife and fork. My proxy server at work really, really, objects to cookies past a certain, but undetermined, limit and refuses me entry to the page on the grounds that it can't deal with it if there are more than 15 posts.

There is much better board software out there, and we really should have it. Trouble is, of course, that Anu has acquired what he can get at the price he's prepared to pay. Can't really argue with that. But it IS a pain.