I understand why GUEST is posing herself as GUEST in order to maintain a defensive posture. But if you are going on the OFFENSE you owe it to the others on this thread to identify yourself. Otherwise you are no better than anyone you choose to attack from behind a blind. It is also less than brave.

The unfortunate pattern of "piling on" when ignoring would be a much more effective tactic is once again repeating itself in a thread where it really has no place.

And repeating oneself in order to gain a 'last word' is futile. This thread can go on for a long time in 'sez you' mode and it will be very boring.

Let's agree that the original poster made an intelligent bid for reactions and got a few useful ones and some perspective. What more can you get from a web thread? Let's hope that all our contributions were useful.