Jim - Please do stop lurking and start answering. The more the merrier. Alex has been very helpful to me. (Thanks, Alex) I, too, noted his tendency express himself in ways that could be viewed as shall we say, "incendiary". But after I noted that it was fairly uniform thru all his contributions, I finally let it go as just his way of expressing himself and perhaps a tad of misbegotten humor. Alex is a valuable asses to me and I suspect others. So just letting it go may be the best strategy rather than starting a flame war. Cheers, John On Saturday, April 3, 2004, at 02:24 PM, Jim Davis wrote: > Why does it seem that every post from Alex drips with contempt and > sarcasm? If you don't have the patience to deal with these simple > issues, then just give it up! There are plenty of more patient > experts out there- I'll just stop lurking and start answering. > Jim.