> Don't you dare. I'm ecstatic to be hosting such
> intelligent conversations such as this thread,
> and I'm glad you and Diane started it. In fact,
> now that I think about it, the whole of the material
> posted to this forum has been of abnormally high calibre --
> generally, the signal to noise ratio of internet message
> forums is much much much lower.

I agree wholeheartedly! I've never been much for internet forums, but I was a very active poster on several old BBS forums (Anyone else remember BBSs?), and the discssion was never this intelligent, nor was it this professional. There hasn't been any emotional explosion or anything yet! I'm truly impressed with all the people who have been carrying on this conversation, as well as the six dozen other conversations it's spawned so far.

Which brings me to a point I'm going to bring up - this is a great step forward, I think, that the internet allows the same group of people (that's us, folks) to carry on so many different conversations all at the same time! Try doing THAT in person! And we can be at each others' throats one minute, and joking around the next! It's a big step for communication.

> Thanks to everyone who's ever posted here. :-)

Even those of us who tend to babble? :-}

dkd1