I think Al's is the kind of comment that is better responded to in a friendly personal message, explaining something about how things work, and suggesting lightening up. But since he's a GUEST that's not possible.

But while it can seem a nuisance having masses of threads, so that the one you're looking for gets lost, that's not really such a big problem, if you use FIND and the 3 days RESTORE, and revive threads if hey haven't had the response they need.

However I can't see how it makes a lot of difference if a thread builds up a bit of length. Normally when a simple request turns into a long thread, it means that some interesting stuff is turned up - related songs, stories about where they came from.

With the requests that end after one or two posts, it normally means the songs in the DT anyway, but the person posting hasn't worked out how to look there. What I like is threads that start "This song is in the DT - but what is it all about?" and so forth.

Where a song isn't in the DT, it's amazing how quickly this place comes up with the goods - and if a song isn't in the DT that deserves to be it's normally unusual enough to deserve some kind of exploration and discussion.

Incidentally I don't know anybody without a lot of bone in their head. I mean, there aren't a lot of molluscs on the Internet, I'm led to believe. (And that is friendly jocular, not sneery, I suppose I should point out. I don't do emoticons as a rule. I don't know how to spell them.)