I'm all with you, Joe F. I think the best conversations are open and free-form. Not that they can't focus for an extended period of time on a particular subject, but there should always be the openness to move on. If conversations were partitioned into "threads" like they are of some necessity in here, I'd find them very limiting. At the same time, I appreciate the threads because it's a chance to draw more people into a slightly more focused discussion... as focused as threads ever get. :-) I've moved a couple of discussions from the kitchen table into their own threads... like the ones about 50's music, and Italian roots of Doo Wop. I'm enjoying them because they are drawing in many Catters who haven't stopped by the kitchen table.

Yet.

Jerry