It is unfortunate that Ted felt compelled to pull his thread, but I respect the fact that he made his decision based on what he believes & he can't be fairer than that.

the reason I feel it was unfortunate is that the continued deleting of these threads no matter how unpalatable or unsavoury they seem is not conducive to having a happy & harmonious forum because the root cause of the problem will never get aired & that ultimately will be the demise of the forum.

for this forum to succeed there has to be debate for conflicting points of view if there is not debate then all that will be left is a skeleton of members because the majority will be gone.

Of course there are from time to time jealous non Technics owners that try to get involved in the discussions whose only aim is to wind people up & create negativity but I am sure you can deal with them no problem.

I consider that a thread of some 27 posts of different points of view to be a successful thread albeit for one rather pathetic insulting post to which I feel some members had dealt with admirably.But the point is people had the opportunity to have some input & the last thing they wish to see is that their contribution has been wiped out.

A request please no private emails on this, If you do or don't agree with what I say then post it here.

I appeal to you all as members of this forum that , if you are interested enough in the first place to create a thread then stick with it thick & thin. If posts become abusive then I am sure Nigel will deal with it.
Please do not delete your thread just because the argument does not seem to be going your way.
Best Regards
Johnnie