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I really appreciate your responses to my post - they are well written and thought provoking (unlike one fellow who likes to hit me with one-two liner responses. I won't mention any names)

(fred) I in turn appreciate the kind words. I may disagree with you, but if you are attempting to honestly defend your position, rather than posting here to stir up a hornets nest, so to speak, then I want to be respectful to your posts. I too am annoyed by one line zingers, and I mean this with all due respect to some of your detractors who have posted against you. The one liners can be useful to withdraw clarifying information, but I would hope averagefellow and others would interact substantively with what you have written.

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I'm going away on holiday tomorrow and will only be back after Christmas, but I'll print your posts out and read them while I'm away.

(Fred) Please take your time. I for one could use the break because I am on call for Jury duty this week, and family is coming in this weekend, and work will be shut down for the week in between Christmas and New Years, so my computer access will be when I can take the time to drop by the office. Have a Merry Christmas yourself. I will try to get to your big paper.

Fred

"Ah, sitting - the great leveler of men. From the mightest of pharaohs to the lowest of peasants, who doesn't enjoy a good sit?" M. Burns