Jeanne is selling the Saloon a bit short - there are indeed anchor tags for individual posts. They have the form "000000" for the initial post, and then "000001" and so on. You can see them by looking at the page source. So to link to this post of mine, append "#000002" to the Saloon URL.
I don't know that this is a FAQ, but it has come up before, so I added an entry to the
http://faq.javaranch.com/java/JavaRanchFaq [ November 27, 2007: Message edited by: Ulf Dittmer ]