> I would assume air drying is better UNLESS you use a newly laundered tea towel every time OR the air in your kitchen is full of soot, fly spray, cigarette smoke, or airborne anthrax spores being secretly piped into your house by a malicious neighbour.

How about flys, earwigs, dirt, mice, more dirt, ants, spray for ants, more dirt, mice droppings, bait for mice, more dirt, and, oh, did I mention the dirt?

Anyway, I solved the problem (a bit extremely): I'm moving out.

sam"Actually, it was more than just the dishwashing that got to me; that was just a pertinent straw"hael