About the way pages are shown in forums

hi,
It would be better if u show how many pages are in th forum and allow
users to jump to page 1 to say page 5 and links to last and first pages
in the forum.
Ofcourse I am able to jump to pages by changing the getvariable
page= in the url but That is not a good way of doing it
right? so I request u to look into that matter.