About the current state of the forum (a personal OPINION)

[Don Caldwell]

I spend less time on TOCH than before, because I find it harder to browse. I found the old flat format very conducive to quick scanning. To each his own, however; this is Ruy's baby, we're not going back, and I can live with it.

I have promised myself that I will never again read any but the first page of a long thread; the odds are too great that I will eventually conclude that I have just been wasting my time. I do blame the moderator(s) for not cutting off long, crappy threads, and suggest a guideline: any thread that has degenerated into mud-slinging by two or three participants, with little or no attempt to present new data other than "gotchas", should be deleted by the moderator, even if it is not blatantly obscene or libelous.

I hope that this is constuctive enough for the membership.

Don Caldwell