I know the temptation is to think that out there there is some faceless creature writing all the GUEST posts, but it ain't necessarily so. Remember there's no particular reason to think that GUEST is the same as GUEST. For what it's worth.

Jon wrote: "I find it almost impossible to imagine that there are not similar communities in other areas of interest." So do I - but I haven't found any yet that come close. And pretty well all the ones I've come across do in fact divide up the sites into different forums, and I think that is one reason they don't work as well, even though the arguments in favour of doing that seem quite cogent.

"Striving to better oft we mar what's well." "If it ain't broke don't fix it." "If it isn't essential to change things, it is essential not to change them."