this discussion group, or at least most of its members. Sometimes these messages provoke comment, sometimes even passionate comment. Thankfully (IMHO) we don't see much (any?) eBay reposting here, and I HOPE IT STAYS THAT WAY! Of course, that is really up to the discretion of the newsgroup administrator, and I will defer to Jim's judgement on this. tnx fer the bandwidth es 73, john