Once again, the problem becomes "Who will apply the standard, and what will the standard be?"

I agree that having the posts have an OPTIONAL 'discard date' would be nice. HOWEVER, it then has the potential to become yet another 'carping' tool. Who's to say what is 'frivolous' and needs to be deleted? Some posts will surely be able to be categorized easily - but for other, you'll surely find some people who will stand up and swear on their parent's graves that the post is purely necessary - and other who will say it's shite.

It seems like there are really two ways to go on this one. Either things stay the same as they are, and we run around in circles like this every couple of months, or an unspecified system that creates large amounts of extra work for Max and his designated helpers is put into place.

So far, from what Joe has stated above and what Max has stated previously, the former is the MUCH more likely choice. Ain't no way that ANY system is going to keep everyone happy, and I personally think that any system that generates THIS MUCH CRAP from both sides of the issue is probably the best - better to keep everyone equally pissed off than cater excessively to any one view.

My two cents, adjusted for inflation are worth... .00000128 cents? What the???

M