This from a PM from RToger today in answer to my qyuery as to which of my posts had been deleted.

So the posters above did not individually do anything that did not reach the required criteria - the whole thread was deleted and then restored.

Shambles - do NOT use my name to try to prove a spurious point by suggesting that my post was at fault.

I did not of course ever suggest anything of the sort. I simply listed all of the posters whose posts were wrongly deleted and my view that all of these posters were owed an apology. Your name was included on the list as your post was wrongly deleted.

This was when a still anonymous 'moderator' considerered that is was not part of their job to follow the required critria and honour the assurance given to our forum by the current Chief of the Mudcat Editing Team. The facts are simply that this entire thread (including your post) should not have been 'silently deleted' - but it was.

Jackie - I would appreciate it if you would honour our forum's long-standing convention of not making public the contents of private communications.

You threatened to do this and I requested that you did not as this would place you squarely in the wrong - and now you have chosen to do this, for reasons of your own - it has.

Any other poster likely to involved in a exchange of personal messages with you should be aware that you do not honour this convention.