I have DSL so the length of the posts hasn't been a problem here, and I forget about how long these used to take to load. I appreciate that the clones haven't lopped off those submissions if they're longer than a screen at times. I do try to post a link to somewhere that might be durable, but too often now in my local papers after a week or two the article slip into a "read for a fee" setting. That would confound the point of the thread for most people, and sometimes going back to these old articles is very interesting.

These newspaper threads are used by a relatively small number of people, and they're mostly under the heading of "interesting or odd ball topical" stories. Hot button issues usually end up in their own threads, but I don't think most of these articles should spawn their own, that's why I started it. I'm willing to modify the way I post, and I'm sure Amos and John, and a couple of others who regularly read there, could do the same.

How about, if once we post one, if someone else doesn't come up with a regular remark, we go back and push it to the top with a short remark of our own?

You know, like in some government documents, "This page left intentionally blank." (Of course, once they write that, it isn't blank any more, so those pages are oxymoronic in nature.)

SRS