So are you Cookie Free, or someone else?

If you have been routinely ignored, and feel insulted by it, you really are a member! The next worst thing (or maybe even a worse thing) is to have some one thank another person for what you posted--the truth is, in any given thread, most of the posts don't really get acknowledged, unless the person who started the thread is very conscientious--and after a thread gets to be a certain length, most people don't even read all of what is there--

If you need to be acknowledged, do what Spaw does, which is to post as much as humanly possible--that way, even if three quarters of what you say is ignored, you still will have a very busy day--

The next group of posters are people who get wound-up reading the thread, and posting, whether it gets a response or not, vents--

Then there is another group. who only post because they like to see their own words in print--

You've covered the rest--