My brain has slowly cranked around to an obvious thought that I should have put in my last post.

How would we deal with a new thread created on a subject that had been covered before?

We would gently refer the poster to those threads or provide links to them. We would recognise that not everyone would have seen the earlier threads or would have had a chance to contribute to the discussion.

We certainly would not state that 'we had said all there was to be said on this subject'!

Why do we not do the same with this subject or the same when flamers appear?

I do like Kevin's title suggestion of this thread (any other suggestions?) but I do take the point of the possible danger in creating it but the 'Boogeyman' is out there and is not going to go away if we just 'hide our eyes' and hope that it will.

Thanks for the good sense Jeri, and for the song.