Idiocy In Action. Period. I have to say, though, I love the way you utlize something that was active for only a short time (the removal of search capabilities in the old forums) as justification for a continuation of what was, without question, a case of idiocy in action. These are forums we're talking about. They are a text based medium. As such, they should be subject to greater search capabilities, with finer granularity, not less. Without an effective search engine, you have, as noted in several threads, lol, basically rendered the entire concept of forums in which learning is supposed to go on (and i'd pull up a good eight dozen examples of that being the corporate policy regarding the purpose of the forums if the search function was even partially effective for a search of that nature) worthless insofar as renderosity is concerned. At this point, the only value they have is for short term issues -- meaning that if someone actually wants to learn something by asking a question, they'll have to ask it again and again and again, becuase the answers will be even more impossible to find and effect than they ever were before. Get off your high horse and go abck and look at the code for the original search engine system and actually work at making it work better, not crippling it.

thou and I, my friend, can, in the most flunkey world, make, each of us, one non-flunkey, one hero, if we like: that will be two heroes to begin with. (Carlyle)