I'm sorry you read it that way. I appreciated that this thread had run it's course and should be ended, but I am an opinionated person and wanted to give a little more balanced viewpoint than "why shouldn't we take their oil". I would welcome an opportunity to debate the OP, but it needn't interfere with the PICLIST. It was intended to be courteous to people like you who object to digressions by allowing the debate to continue privately. Moreover I don't think that it's right to make inflammatory remarks just before the thread is closed without offering the chance for rebuttal. That's what the statement was supposed to convey. Flame me offline, because now we really are wasting bandwidth. Olin Lathrop wrote: No, I think this thread should never have been started. I was reacting to "I've made my assertions publicly, but others should only rebut privately". I was not encouraging others to respond to that, only inviting all to see the unfairness and outright arrogance of the statement. It was a coincidence that it happened to be on a thread I previously objected to. ***************************************************************** Embed Inc, embedded system specialists in Littleton Massachusetts (978) 742-9014, http://www.embedinc.com -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist