Ed, my concern in this thread is not to criticize anybody, but to find procedures so that the contents of a thread can be more safely guessed from its title. If an elf happens to see a misleading thread title, she or he can earn my gratitude, and presumably other readers' as well, by correcting it immediately.

This instrument will of course be powerless against substantial thread drifts. (An example of a thread drift is a message about the relation between religion and spiritualism, found in a thread about admins editing thread titles.) Certainly most thread drifts and asides are harmless, and I may well be guilty of a couple as well. The problem will become bigger if a non-"possessed" thread drifts to a "possessed" topic in the sense of Ed T 08:15 AM.

The admins do a good job; thanks once more to all of them!