Pene is experimenting with something, but it's part of the experimental Mudcat and not ready for general use yet. I think his magic number is 60. When a thread gets longer than 60 messages, the number of messages for that thread becomes a clickable link which will display just the first 60 messages from the thread - and give you links to subsequent blocks of 60. If you have a computer that loads fast, you just click on the link for the thread, like you do now. Does that sound like it will work OK for everybody, and does 60 sound like a workable number?
Greg, I have a particular interest in WEBTV, since that's what my dad uses (and what I have to use when I go visit next month). If there are things at Mudcat that don't work on television-based Internet, please let us know. If it's relatively minor, send me a personal message and I'll send it on to Pene (or you could send it to Pene, but I'm particularly interested in this). If it's major, then we could start a TV-Internet tech thread.
-Joe Offer-