I have a hypothesis that people who start a thread and then ask for it to be closed usually do it because they wish they hadn't started the bloody thing in the first place, got out of their depth in it, made a twit of themselves in it and hope that, once it's closed, it will sink down the list without trace. So that, after a few weeks of dignity-repair, they can come back and start another stupid thread or two. When you think about it, Wacko, we're doing you a big favour by subverting that process by keeping this one going.