I'm going to take back my vote. I was a bit hasty.
It's not the size of the thing that bothers me, that is as long as I am reading it here on the 19" (it will be a problem at home on the old POS)
In any event, I just realized that when I click onto most recent post, if I haven't kept up on the thread, there could be numerous posts ahead and I have no context until I scroll back . . which completely defeats the purpose of having access to most recent post.