We will miss your irregular but always competent and helpful input on the forum, Roy. I'm sorry about the experiences you have had with the forum system. I think we have a good friendly community here, but I respect your choise to focus on the e-mail. Thanks for posting this friendly message, Roy!
Sorry I did not really make myself clear. I will still look in here from time to time and if I think I can help, I'll try to answer questions. As you have probably realised I do have strong views and some may not miss my opinionated style, so if i have offended anyone it wasn't intentional, honestly!
No, my real annoyance is with the personal emailing via the forum, and I see no reason for having to use something I consider that sub-standard. It is too awkward, time consuming and unnecessary. I have enough problems using the program here, so there is no way I'm going to use it for very often long emails privately when I can use something far better.
Lennart has done a wonderful job with this forum, but the server is now suffering because of the very success of the forum, and the program we have to use to type everything with is just poor I'm afraid.
So email me directly for fast response if you need help or even just want to 'chat', but please don't send me private emails through this system that expect me to reply through it too.
Roy