It shouldn't often happen that a bunch of them will turn up in close succession.

While long ones are not in close succession, the "last fifty" of the current thread is has enough "longish" posts to be at about "75 screens," (with about 48 posts); and it stalls/hesitates during download with my connection, with "waiting for mudcat" messages. Numerous previous segments are almost as long, so in that particular thread, where there is some justification for the longer posts, it has happened fairly often.

Most of the longest posts are for material where there isn't an available/linkable source, so the thread purpose does imply justification for most of them - to some extent.

Intent is to recognize the "special need" in the one pair of threads, and not to solicit generalities about general use at the 'cat.

Breaking a long post into multiple "normal length" ones is another option, but sometimes there isn't a good place to make the break - and that might require "extra thought processing."

John