I've just done a random check on one of the mailng lists I'm subscribed to and discovered that out of a total of 256 messages recieved in the last month, 121 are forwarded messages and replies to forwarded messages. Personally, I find this an annoying state of affairs since it clutters my mailbox with messages I often don't want to read, but might find interesting.

This section could be called "Fwd: Mindless Link Propagation". If you've stumbled on an interesting article on the web you feel deserves a discussion at urania, this is where to place it. Articles here are not really articles, but rather a synopsis containing links to articles on other site(s). Try to give us more than just a one line summary - give us an idea of what makes it interesting and provide links. Ideally, we'd rather that for the duration of the "Challenge", people stick with full length articles, though nothing is stopping you from doing otherwise.