A thought: Wouldn't everyone be satisfied with a workable compromise? How about, if you really want to share an image, NOT replicating it here (clogging the files and alarming our beloved benefactors), but posting a hyperlink to it (Max thinks these are "very cool" -- distinctly heard him say so!)? Then we can get creative without overloading the forum or having to feel guilty afterward, and the gargoyle can simply move to the next posting with its feathers un-ruffled.

Another thought: If Max ever gets the jukebox going in the cyber-pub, he could SELECTIVLY post really pertinent, aesthetic or generally worthwhile images on a gallery page, updated weekly or monthly. But that can wait. The man gets no sleep as it is!

A final word: This operation needs more than our praises and blessings. Suppose we were, each of us, to set up a "pushke" (a collection box for what we call in English, "Charity", but in Hebrew, "JUSTICE" [tzedakah]) right beside our monitors, and every time we access The Mudcat Forum or the DT, we put in a dime, or a quarter, and an extra penny or nickel for each time we post to a thread. (Slips of paper as I.O.U. reminders could serve in a pinch.) At the end of each month we could send in our voluntary tolls by check or M.O. , and thus ensure that (to borrow from the T-shirt thread) Music OF the People, BY the People and FOR the People shall not perish from the Web! Lets get the New Year off to an horourable start by supporting the source of our mutual enjoyment.

"JUSTICE, JUSTICE SHALT THOU PURSUE!"

Shula