Rich, no way on the "Approved Topics List"........Anything is fair game. That idea is way too close to censorship.

I have posted previously in the HELP forum on this and I'll repost it here. It would be a lot easier to keep up with the news on the PEL issue, a very important topic to many, or Iraq, or General News with fewer threads.

I think it would be quite simple to start a "PEL News of the Day" and an "Iraq News of the Day" threads. Everything goes there. If the subject fits into another existing thread then post in it as well or transfer the post later.....Just stop the friggin' daily thread additions. Khandu mentioned Punch the Horse...We HAVE a "Who's playing where" Permathread don't we? Let's use it.

A new addition to Iraq or PEL or just some General News tidbits can also be listed in the appropriate thread assuming there is one, but a "News" thread would be simple to keep up with. As an example, let's say someone posts a new thread. "Kim Howells Rips a Fart"....maybe that would best go under some other existing thread, but for now it becomes a post in the "PEL News" thread rather than a new thread of itself. If there can be found a thread it might best fit in like, "Kim Has Smelly U-Trou" than it can be transferred there later but everyone gets the news. Same with Iraq only moreso as not much of that stuff is future reference. Say at about 300 or so posts a new "News" thread is started. Only rarely can I see the need for a new Iraq thread.

Spaw