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While I got you here. Let's say you had a "Dumpster Thread for DLX" where any and all links related to the story were posted. You end up with 1,000 links, which you want to sort into 10 file threads. How much of a task would that be for someone familiar with where each link belonged?

It would just be a matter of dragging one link to the appropiate file(s). IOW, It would be as simple as doing 1000 copy and pastes. Do I have that right?

It's very challenging to post 1000 links. I have posted a page with 840 external links (plus a bunch of anchor links at the top) here -

! HAL9000 - Links to News Sources (v 2.10)

I believe it is the most dense and complex set of links posted on this site. It was difficult to get the page to post the way I wanted it because FR's posting software modifies the HTML, adding blank lines where they were unwanted, and generally messing up the desired format.

Eventually, I wrote a PHP script to generate that page, and added extra features like opening the links in a new window. The main trick to get the formatting right was to eliminate all end-of-line characters (carriage returns, newlines, etc.) That preserves the format, but makes the page difficult to maintain in HTML format. It's relatively easy to maintain now in PHP.

Unfortunately, there were some extra things like HTML search forms that were impossible to post on FR, but I have them working on my local copy of the page.

I could tell you how to put 1000 links into an HTML file with relative ease. Yahoo mail has a bookmarks feature, but you need a mail account there. They're free, so there'd be no cost. You can download your favorites or bookmarks to it, create links there (type or c&p) & edit the order they're in there. It spits out an HTML file.

You could hit "view source" & post chunks of it with copy & paste. You wouldn't have a dazzling look with it, but it would get the job done.