Is it the long winter, my imagination, something in the water????? There seems to be a lot of what appears to be animosity between some of the recent posters. There also appears to be no more than a handful of subscribers taking part in the discussion regarding a 'newbi' corner of the list. I'm wondering if this is better taken to private emails between those folks until something concrete surfaces from all of this. What seems like private discussions [ and arguments, putdowns, and so on ] between two or three individuals is beginning to turn off the other 997 subscribers. Let's tone things down a bit. Bruce, this week's moderator