"May I remind you and anyone else that you entered this thread with an entirely off-topic, trivialising declaration from nowhere that you intended to write my biography "

Ms. Easby - May I remind you that my point was not off-topic as the original post discusses the act of a collector acknowledging their sources with some sort of compensation.

While it may have been beyond your comprehension to understand that I was making an analogy, that is exactly what I was trying to illustrate. Instead, for some odd reason you felt that I was actually writing a book and somehow that meant it would be an attack on you. All readers to this thread seem to have understood that, except you.

I have addressed the topic several times, and you keep sidetracking it with insults and dismissals. Your lack of ability to connect with others and rude behavior is the source of my contempt. People like you serve as roadblocks and have no effect in making change in the world. You have done your own cause a great disservice.

I am still waiting for you to answer my earlier questions, and please do tell me to do research and starting reading other threads. If you cannot summarize your thoughts in a simple post, then the issue is more complicated - as I originally stated.