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Sorry you feel that way, pre65,, and sorry to have ruffled feathers with just my first post. But, maybe whoever did it should have first considered that my post was well-intended, aimed to bring something to the attention of a community which may well be interested in it but may not otherwise see it, instead of shooting me first and asking questions later.

I didn't post it to deliberately annoy mods or contributors. Why would I do that? Then when I asked in my second post what had I done to offend, that got deleted too!

If I broke forum rules, as a total newby I feel an edit to my original post accompanied by a PM explaining why it was unsuitable would have left me with a much better initial impression of the forum leadership, don't you? I would have fully respected that approach, and it is exactly what I do on the forums I moderate.

But what's done is done.

Interestingly, I posted the exact same thread on a local history website and was thanked for bringing it to their members attention. Just shows how people can interpret the same well-meant thread in completely different ways.

I've been looking around: some great stuff here. Just maybe the chiefs need to lighten up a little with less of the 'guilty until proven innocent' eh?

Best wishes.