One thing that has not been pointed out - and I am now pointing it forthwith - is that a good many of the posts are made not only in response to that individual thread but as an outgrowth of what The Shambles has written in PMs to the posters.

Ebbie the implication you have made here is that the few PM we have exchanged were suspect in some way. Perhaps you would care to correct this implication?

And perhaps also the implication of what other posters may have exchanged - which you would have little knowledge of - both the the content and the ammount of them - but which you describe as an 'outgrowth'.

PMs are there to be used. Perhaps if they were used more often for the purpose they were intended - there would less personal judgements made in public?