Bert, I have to dissagree with you slightly one your view point over the usage of Hearme. It is true that nobody can stop anybody using the facility (at least not easily) but if your arguement was followed to the letter one could argue "I want to swear and be abusive - nobody can stop me so I will do it".

I do believe that Harpgirl's suggestion was a good one but in Mudcat, if someone want's to raise a new topic, they start another thread rather than try to change the direction of a current thread. I still feel that the same principle should be applied to Hearme - keep the current thread as the open session that it became and use other rooms, freely availalbe on Aine's site for additional purposes.

OH and BTW, in spite of our disagreements over certain issues, I feel strongly that most if not all contributers to this thread are of the "kiss and make up" school of thought although one some issues that has to involve "agreeing to disagree".

Jon