Paul,

It doesn't "give threading for free", that site.

I was not assuming, or looking for anything like it. I just wondered if it
was maybe set up for some intimi, but leaked out somehow. I have little to
no wish to abuse such a situation.

But it caused me to consider a second thing: Do you have any idea about its
retention ? I'm asking, because its normally parents of already old
messages (often from necro-bumping GoogleGroups posters, but sometimes also
techical posts which lack context) that I sometimes want/need to take a peek
at.

So Howard retaliated by ruining the archive, and truncating *any* long
message, not just ones with obvious movie payloads.
Which is a smart move on Howards part, as the movie pirates can't game the
system if all long posts are ruined.

Both agreed. But I take it it was either that, or apart from auto-weedeing
the obvious ones, still needing to keep adding filters to weed out those
"gamers" ...Something which I think he tried first (but had to admit it
would take way to much time).

Regards,
Rudy Wieser