To wonder why threads shut after 1000 messages?

[KrytensNanobots]

Just that really. Always wondered! What's the reasoning behind it? Always seems a bit daft to me, the thread's still in full swing and then puff.... gone, go home, that's enough now!

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^ because ten pages of that is tiresome?

My (15 years out of date) software background tells me it may be something to do with programming and they need / desire to put an upper limit on a value of something to help check for errors, or set the correct memory size for a variable. However of course it may be nothing to do with that at all.