I try very hard *not* to spend too much time and energy perusing this BS section, but I yielded to temptation and just looked in on this thread for the first time in several days.

I am very sorry to learn that Jerry is the "good one" who quit. I believe there's a pretty good chance he'll be back sooner or later, hopefully staying up in the music section where he has so much to contribute and avoiding this morass of pettiness and gossip down here.

Let me report that I've traded some very amicable PMs both with Jerry Rasmussen *and* with Martin Gibson. MG was quite gracious and helpful; of course, we were not discussing personalities, we were talking about Martins and Gibsons (safe topics).

(Jerry was more than gracious, too, of course. Goes without saying.)