I've only be around a couple of years or so, and felt welcomed and welcome pretty fast. certainly better than a well-known UK newspaper forum, where the first responses were an extraordinary mixture of hostility, suspicion, thinking I was. inter alia, a "sock-puppet", whatever that is. Horrible. Improved loads since, but still not the friendliness here.

NB. This is not an insinuating Cancerian attempt at eliciting nice words (which I've already had aplenty) (whatever 'eliciting' means).

Ivor