The message is clearly coming through that the authority is Max and not our volunteers. If Max is to have the final say in re-opening threads - perhaps it would be far better for him to also have the final say in closing and deleting entire threads?

Then the thread in question would not have been closed even once, let alone twice, for there were never any grounds to do so.

And Jon......The skill seems to be lacking here in the US as well. Frankly though, the general ability to write anything seems to have gone the way of the woolly mammoth in this country. The internet isn't helping.

This is the valued opinion of one whose posts here (or rather personal attacks) seem unable to resist scatological references and display all the symptoms of Tourettes in their inabilty to leave out the F word. And the pedants who consider that correcting the spelling, grammar and writing style etc of other posters and who were discouraged from doing this here for so long - would appear to have taken over completly.

But please don't waste your time just posting to blindly defend something by calling me names, questioning my parentage, sanity or motives. It has had no effect on me for many years except to make you look silly to the majority of posters who have no idea why you are all jumping up and down. It only brings the thread right back up. This is simply my view - agree, disagree or ignore it.

Perhaps if you do post again - you could address why the thread in question is so bad it needed to be closed twice and why simply re-opening it, as I request, would really be so terrible?