Andy; Have you read the INTRODUCTION MESSAGE for first time users of thechipboard.com? If not, please treat a lot of what you have read (and will read in the future) with a jaundiced eye.

Many folks who appear to be fighting ... truly are. Others may be involved in good-natured, back at 'cha, "jousting". I direct you to the link below that will help explain some of the perceived "nastiness" that you may have read elsewhere in these sometimes controversial threads.