The local library system farms out old books and recordings to their used book stores, and I get quite a bit of wonderful stuff that's out of the mainstream, just because it's all done as a computerized popularity contest. I make out like a bandit on such a system.


And, of course, some threads die out because someone gave the right information on the first post, so a lot profit from visiting it without the need to add to it. But even the number of hits (and the Clones haver lots of better things to do) is not nescessarily a measure of the ultimate worth if just one person actually gained from it. It's nice, say, if a person gets 50 hits on their birthday thread, but if I don't know then I wouldn't bother posting, even if I read a bit to see where the person fits into the scheme of things. It's all subjective.



So I'd give this one a 1/2, threadened with extinction, if I had to grade the premise, but who knows where it'll actually all lead. So really. I'd have to grade it posthumously if I can find it at all after it dies, if I remember the thread name.


So, come one, come all, and sho'nuf join the show and give it all its worth's worth.....