Well I guess that barb was aimed at me.

I agree with you Paul that avoidance is best. However I would say that some people here have built up relationships which, without understanding them it is easy to misinterpret a comment.

One of the points of this board is to express views, some you will agree with, some you won't. If views were never challanged we would have a very stale board. It is very easy when you do not agree with someones view to interpret that disagreement as anger or rudeness. In my experience of this board that is very rarely the case.

Just for fun go back to some of the threads which you refer to, read them again and review if your opinion changes or not. My expereince is that once a thread has wound to a close, and the discussion has ended what appeared as rude or arraogant at the time, very often isn't after the event.

You comment that what you value most is that we respect each others views. What I value most is the ability to appologise when we have made a mistake.

Nick