much thanks with the quick responses, guys
hmm... a nasty load even if just limited to one most-recent post? (within one forum?)
if its just that one post-content loading ... what kinda load am i lookin at here? assuming most of the posts would be no larger than my post that started this thread
(all of the posts would be coming from my
weblog forum, in which only i can post, and there's, on average, 3-4 new posts a day in the entire forum).