the semi-'official' limit is one screen....and I too have been getting tired of folks 'arguing' by swooooping up 20 column inches of someone else's writing of data and whamming it down in here! If you can't be bothered to summarize, sort and provide links to your source, don't be surprised if you find stuff suddenly edited....I KNOW that politics and hurricanes and religion require a lot of talk, but MAKE A LINK...we'll read it if we are seriously interested.