While a large, waste-of-space white box which contains four buttons
and a big, bold rendition of the thread title may be an improvement over
a large, waste-of-space white box which contains four buttons and a big,
bold rendition of the first 240 (or so) characters of the original
posting, it's still a large, waste-of-space box which contains very
little useful content.  A casual observer might be able to find enough
space for the buttons in the large, waste-of-space non-white box which
already graces the top of the page, obviating the large, waste-of-space
white box just below it (between it and the actual content).

   I could be just thinking wishfully again, but it seems as if someone
(posessing some judgement) actually _designed_ a Web page for this
stuff, instead of stacking a collection of miscellaneous gizmos and
gadgets, the result might not only be more useful, it might actually
load in less than a minute on an old, slow computer.  You know, the way
things were before the Great Lithium Upgrade?  (That'd be back when I
could post things normally from my VMS Alpha system.)

   Just a thought.