Actually Daddy Chompers it started a long tome ago........Do you remember before the upgrade when there were no numbers down the right column and no way to split the pages? Max made a major change back then (2002???) to accomodate those whose ISP or puter was too slow to load the big threads. Before then, 100 was a sort of "magic number" after which it became very hard to for those lesser equipped to keep track so we'd start a "Part 2" or 3 or 4 as needed. Remember those days? Here's an example from May of '99 that was easy for me to remember (not that I want to)........Those threads I think went to 5 parts with over 500 postings.

Maybe the best example was the 9/11 threads which we changed every 100 posts and went on for several weeks. In any case, the magic 100 was being used some then just to note it was about time to link in a new thread. After the upgrade the magic 100 was still in our minds and I think it just fell into the game category. I recall at one point it got so serious folks were accusing the Clones of changing posts so they could get the 100 !!!

And we all know no clone would do that.........Joe might though!

Spaw