Of course it's perfectly true that someone with an old browser or a web tv connection may very well have much of use to say or to do, but they will have a lot of trouble trawling through old threads in search of information, as many are considerably longer than the first part of this one.

As to banter and so forth; it doesn't really matter if people post chat or irrelevant material to Study threads, as that can be deleted once any substantive information has been extracted. To save making work for the eventual editor(s), though, they might like to exercise just a little restraint; though many will probably not read the whole thread before posting to it, of course. Material copied from previous discussions, on the other hand, can be edited down before inclusion; though to begin with, elisions should probably be indicated. No criticism of Alice implied, incidentally; just what I hope is good advice.