I'm not sure I agree they really make things slow as such. I'm more interested in the 3rd party monitoring aspect of them, how much of my information do they s

I'm not sure I agree they really make things slow as such. I'm more interested in the 3rd party monitoring aspect of them, how much of my information do they store on the way though exactly. I agree, a universal markdown syntax would be good... or perhaps just drop "http:// http://