Hey, Diki...I'm not one for taking this forum too seriously...you know that quite well by now.

But neither of us enjoy a disrespectful comment even when it's handed to us followed by an army of smileys...and it's hard not to respond with more of the same.

That's generally how things get out of hand on SZ(and other forums) and it's too bad when that happens as a lot of good information gets overshadowed by a usually silly slap fest that no one really wins.

Whether an individual feels that Yamaha is good or bad means diddly squat to me...I just don't care...it is not my concern.

But, through it all, I am enthusiastic about the company because I know it at a level that most of you don't...and so I am loyal.

I did feel that Mike's post was a tad disrespectful, but it is more a reflection of his accumulated dissatisfactions with himself than it has to do with me...and that's something he has to deal with on his own.

Thanks for your post and I'll conclude by saying that you should know me well enough by now to realize that the only way I would be somebody's "whipping boy" is if I'm holding the whip.

Ian