Mc Grath of Harlow,

You have the general idea about refreshing a thread. So many just add a new post that says "Refresh" to keep it on the top.

I had a recent request that went unmet, probably because it was not material to be found on recorded media or in a book. I posted on it 8 times to keep it alive for about 9 days. Yes, I am a veteran, so I know how. I for one am willing to take the effort as both Lamarca and I have done before and "refresh" little orphan requests before they sink below the 24 hour line.

Watch out, here comes the peacemaker part! There will be no peace made on this issue. I don't believe the separate threads idea is viable, because people are not divided along those lines. Max has been sensitive to this issue. He encouraged the label BS for threads that were not going to be about music. Most people seem to stick to that idea. Helps the music folks just glide by those threads.

I have made my suggestion to bump music threads up. I can't recall if anyone mentioned this time that music threads often go quite quickly, two or three posts and the issue has been satisfied and the thread dies. BS, of course, can go on forever. So, the BS hangs around longer and seems to dominate in quantity of threads when it truly only dominates in number of postings. My guess is that Ed has moved on and had enough of this BS.

Roger in Baltimore