bbc - I was going to send you a Personal Message saying "Thanks for providing us with a very important part of the Mudcat".

Then I thought that, if a long thread full of people saying "thank you" might be irritating to some people, a long Personal Message page full of the same messages might be even more irritating to you.

And anyway a public service deserves public recognition. Is there such a thing as "The Freedom of the Mudcat Cafe"?

You deserve it, anyway.