There are good points in your post, Tom. But one thing concerns me, and I've talked a lot about it privately with other members whose opinions I value. I do like to take part in a variety of discussions, but I don't necessarily wish to be speaking on behalf of the organisations I work for. I just want to be me. Take the recent Bert Lloyd discussion. I know that my views about the significance of Bert's dodgy attributions are not shared by Malcolm Taylor from EFDSS. If I have a discussion like that, I don't want people thinking my views represent those of EFDSS - they're just what I think.

For a while I thought maybe this meant that I shouldn't take part in discussions here at all. But other nice people convinced me that my participation as an individual was as welcome as everyone else's.

Maybe I should end each post with a disclaimer. :)