This thread could actually be closed now, if I knew
how to do it...
Or do they close automatically if no one replies for a certain length of time?

Yesterday, I emailed a note to the address Michael Cantor listed above, but have so far not received a reply. It wasn't bounced back to me as undeliverable either.

Actually, Gail, the threads stay open forever. Millenniums from now, travellers from another civilization will find these threads and read some of the squabbles on General Talk, and doctoral theses will postulate that we probably jabbered ourselves to death. "The end apparently began," adherents of the philosopher-king Woody Allen will state, "when a man named Mark Allinson came into possession of a thermonuclear device."



[This message has been edited by Michael Cantor (edited September 27, 2006).]