Mick, I took Jack's post as referring to himself as someone who never has opened one of those threads.

That said, while bandwidth may be cheap, Mudcat is still being run pretty much on Max's shoestring, so even "cheap" bandwidth can probably add up pretty fast. And, as one who pretty much satisfies himself with reading threads nowadays and participating in few of them, I find myself somewhat resentful of the dross I find when scrolling through the thread list. The "copycat" threads remind me of the way we used to act when I was in 1st or 2nd grade, and I find it hard to see the humor in them no matter what one's background.