[smshirk]

This forum is beginning to become far too objectionable to my sense of fair play, in addition to being far too difficult to reach on a regular basis. I suppose I agreed to these terms when I paid my first dues, but I evidently didn't read them. I doubt I have "broken" any of these rules, but the fact that IB feels the need to post warnings and threats is more than I can stomach. When we began paying for the right to post here, it was a forum for us by us. Now that we are owned by some faceless corporation I have no real or implied affinity or sense of loyalty, particularly when being arbitrarily threatened with demerits or points against my license to post. I suppose I will pick up my marbles and go play somewhere else the next time my dues are due. There are still places that do not resort to threats of its' membership.