Dave, I did not make any excuses then or later. However, I could hardly be "astroturfing", given that so few other messages support mine - and even fewer do so in words that I can possibly find helpful. Mudcat rule is: those who object might reply, those who agree are likely just to nod silently.

Again: people should never believe blindly what others write. My messages, like all others, should be judged by their own collective weight, not by any other credentials. A Ph.D., for example, however credible, will be of no use if the messages are not of matching quality.

(Like many of us, I have several reasons to keep my RL identity largely to myself, not primarily to avoid being stalked by Mudcatters.)—

Conc copy-and-pasting? Would work for the Bible, but the where on earth could the rest be copied from??