does working with URL's slow down the engine?

[jbv]

> Derek Bump wrote:
> > Why is it that you find the answer to a problem ONLY after you tell the
> > world you can't figure it out?!!
> >

just in case you really want to know, it's a very well known fact in psychology :
putting your problem into words for others is the first step on the way to the
solution (see Piaget and others)...
AFAIR this has been discussed already on this very list, and must be burried
deep inside the archives...
The silly part of the story is that very often the solution pops-up in your mind
not as soon as you finished putting the problem into words in an email, but rather
right after you pressed the "send" button...

JB