to be its not helped when some us make comments without thinking it may scare people off from posting.
(not having a go at anyone BTW i'm as guilty of it as everyone else - a couple of posts i made have been taken the wrong way - apologise to anyone reading who got one of those).
for those new to things like this posting in a forum can be pretty daunting especially when the a flowing so fast as the do on DCM (i've seen well established forums with much lower activity than DCM)