re: 2 cents for Robert
Those who forsake the 'Zone for the vagaries of Google deserve what they get :-)
I've read the 12 second stat too, and beleive it. I've also read that a vast number of surfers will not scroll to see an entire page, so if it's off the screen when the page loads, they'll never see it. To them, a board on the 'Zone would never appear to have more than perhaps 3 or 4 threads at any given time.
Patience was a virtue--before the microwave, MTV, broadband videogaming generation inherited the earth.