ok...at least I made the point I wanted, and you listened and answered.
As you note, I don't have any final say. (and, having watched Joe do this 'housekeeping' for several years, I suspect he is far more tolerant and easy about it all than **I** would have been)

I don't see any easy answer, for, if Joe were to change and go more in the direction you propose, (i.e. doing almost nothing to the threads), he would no doubt get protests from other quarters.

tell you what...I'll trade you a year of fighting PELS for a year of being governed by G. Bush!...