I thought we picked MARCIE after Marcie the ignored Invisible Girl. A Buffy in joke thing, not just a Buffista in joke. I think a few people wanted to make MARCIE an acronym for something, but I think it was just a name being turned into a verb, the same way we started using Nilly and meara. This could easily be explained in the FAQ.

I know, when I first started on Table Talk, I didn't know what the ENUF filter was or how it worked, I had to go investigate that.

Speaking only for myself, I wouldn't want the default action to be "Download", rather than "Display", and therefore I wouldn't want it to be zipped up either. It's simpler to save something that's already displayed than vice versa. Also, once I've sucked a thread, I like to look at what I've got to make sure it's what I want.

I thought we picked MARCIE after Marcie the ignored Invisible Girl.

We did. Though someone came up with a nice explanation for it.

someone came up with a nice explanation for it.

Someone else came up with one I can't remember but I know it used "In Extremis" for the I and E.

My humble contribution was that it stands for the "Making Antagonistic Respondents Completely Invisible" Extension.

I wouldn't want the default action to be "Download"

Agreed. It's an option that users, if they wanted, would have to explicitly choose, because it's kind of the experts' version.

Agreed. It's an option that users, if they wanted, would have to explicitly choose, because it's kind of the experts' version.

So, something that could certainly wait for version 2.0... :)

I am not being facetious, but as a non-techno person, I don't understand what a threadsuck would be if it wasn't downloading the thread to my computer so I could read off-line? What is the other option?

The two options are

• you see the thread as a very long page in your browser, and then you save it to disk using the File menu and "Save As" or whatever
1. instead of seeing the thread, that little box comes up which comes up when you download software, which says "what shall I do with this file?" and you choose "save it to disk" which means that it could chug away quietly downloading in the background, without having to be displayed

OH-- OK-- that makes sense. You could do the first by setting your posts per page to 10,000, though, right?

You could do the first by setting your posts per page to 10,000, though, right?

Yup, but the proposed Jon B version of a threadsucked thread has lots of stuff removed, like the links on the sides and in the posts and whatever, it contains just the basics of the posts themselves.

There's a link to a demo of this somewhere, but I'm too lazy to find it for you...

That's OK John-- I just like to get it straight in my head. I have never threadsucked before, lacking the ability to run the program, so my only interstion with the threadsucked threads are the one DX zipped.