I agree with McGrath of Harlow who said: "Subject: RE: LONG threads:a request From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 03-Feb-02 - 12:41 PMA good idea, and the handy thing with the Mudcat is the ability for us to do that kind of thing ourselves.
One problem is that where a long thread still has useful things in it, starting a part two can break the continuity. That's why it's important, when starting apart two to put a link to the new thread in the old one, and a link to the old one in the new one.
Even so there is a problem of continuity breaking. It'd be great if there was some way of breaking a thread so that say the last 20 posts would be carried over into the new one. It is possible to do this manually by putting a bunch of posts from the old thread in the new one's opening post, and it is sometimes done, but it is I imagine very laborious. Also it's clumsy, because you don't get the posts included in the index at the start of the thread.
An example of a long thread where interesting new points can arise even at the end of a long and old thread, see the one on Raglan Road, where it has just been pointed out that lots of us have been singing a crucial line wrong all these years. ("An autumn day" probably should be "an August day" - in case at 122 it's to long to load.)"