I don't think that's really true, Tracy. People often jump into a thread and take it in a new direction, but often it is at least marginally related to the technical points being discussed.

Besides, this is not the reason John was banned. I just found it annoying because too often his posts seemed (to me) to be completely irrelevant to the discussion and served only to push his own agenda. I repeat though, that this is not why he was banned.

And regardless of my annoyance at him sometimes, I still believe that he was one of the more competent developers and as I said, before this all began, I learned an awful lot from him.

>Well then, we'll have to ask Michel to ban many of the UT members and I'm afraid that would probably include me (sniffle) :o)
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>>I still disagree that raising issues from a different angle that do nothing to further the knowledge that the person starting the thread is trying to glean is useful in a technical discussion. In fact I think it is actually counter productive to the questioner. Starting another thread raising those questions probably would be the way to go imho.