Bounty Hound, a teaspoonful of grumpy information from John Moulden is worth a a shovelful with a smile from most others.

It's odd behaviour on any forum to ask a question and then vanish for so long. A footnote in your first message like "(sorry, I'll be away on the rigs for a bit)" would have helped.

The fRoots thread isn't anything like as hostile to Mudcat as "grumpy" suggested. What Ian Anderson was saying is pretty much the same as you regularly hear here too.