I once thought of posting, pasted, a large and well-known dictionary of music. But then my head cooled down and, while cooler, prevailed. I do still have the text with HTML formatting inserted, around here on one of these hard disks, somewhere-- may still do it one day.

What it was about-- A question had been asked (thread created) about the difference between a musical "apple" and a musical "orange." The only way to answer it accurately would have been to cite experts' music HISTORY for the 9-100 other fruits (and vegetables) in the garden, growing between the apple and the orange...

The requestor, it turned out, didn't really want to "know" it "accurately" but only needed to resolve a practical way of approaching a logistics problem-- so I soon concluded that while the material was of great interest to many who had tried to answer the same question and found it hard to nail-- I had basically wasted my time trying to translate an available (expensive) print resource into Mud-HTMLese.

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The long answer--

There's no satisfying some people, you know-- I get into a lot of trouble for long passages (from folks who are eager to label the hot air ballons carrying cargo, as "windy," so they can puncture the pretty balloons, let the wind escape, and crash the cargo). I get into MORE trouble when I post briefly (from other folks who look for the narrowest opportunity to get a mad on, or play "victim").
    OTOH I get equal numbers of PMs thanking me for the long and short ones, who say that something has been useful to them in some way.

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The short answer: I guess that altho one can't win, one can't really lose, either.

YMMV. Most do. :~)

~Susan