>>>> To: Dick Adams

>>>> You started this thread, and I wrote the following in response.
>>>> Any chance that you will follow up on your original post with any
>>>> additional information etc. in response to what I and/or others
>>>> wrote?

>>> If you want a reply, you must refer to him as "esteemed moderator".
>>> Now that you have been reminded, he may reply.

>> It may be that some of the totally unnecessary personal attack posts
>> caused him to not want to bother getting back into the discussion.

> If he doesn't like what certain people have to say, he can filter
> them. But he doesn't want to control his actions, he wants to control
> other people's. That's the issue here.

> Filters are for people who want to take charge of what they read.
> Moderators are for people who want to take charge of what everybody
> reads.