With regard to the bolded text above, I would just like to record that I've no idea what you're talking about. I have no knowledge of how or why you ended up where you are, and wasn't involved in any way shape or form.
I salute Eleanor who is one of the most even handed and fair moderators one could ever have wished for even during the most difficult times (and some of those a rational person would find difficult to believe, it took us a long time to work it out, and unfortunately confidentiality dictates my discretion so I can't share) - but as she has always said - the forum is not a democracy and at the end of the day John takes the final decisions, backed up by his mod team. Of whom Eleanor and I were his staunchest support for the ethos behind what he tried and did achieve with this forum at a time when it was a very difficult thing to do.
That is water under the bridge now because the times have most certainly changed now and there is only a rump which doesn't recognise that. But Eleanor has stuck with it through thick and thin and I wish her many happy years of posting.
@ Eleanor
Your middle name is integrity and you have given great service to this forum as a moderator: RESPECT and thanks for that.
