Hi Patrick- Um, I don't wish to seem like I'm treading on your toes here, but as you specifically mentioned me in your post, I feel a reply might be in order.

Whilst I understand why you feel the need to exercise some constraint,It's just a fact of life(whether here or out there) that sometimes a conversational topic reaches it's logical conclusion, but for the sake of camaraderie, it's quite natural to continue on within the established dynamic.

It's a natural progression, and it seems somewhat wrong,I feel, as host by proxy, to try and stymie it.

This IS a Floyd forum. That much is not in doubt. But as people come to recognise and understand each other's differing personalities and opinions, things are occasionally going to drift into differing territories. That's conversation.

I personally am not in any other kind of contact with any of the other contributors to this particular forum, so I do try and throw in some other stuff occasionally, but, it has to be said, the majority of which refers to Pink Floyd in some way or another.

The sentiments you have expressed are fair enough, as everyone has the right to express themselves fairly and equally, however, as moderator, it also is up to you to remain unbiased and impartial, not authoritarian or heavy handed which(although feel free to publicly correct me if I'm wrong)I feel you come across as in your original posting.

There's no-one that I don't like in this forum, and one or two, owing to the incidental banter, I think that I'd probably have a couple of jars with in the real world.

If all we did was talk solely about Pink Floyd all of the time, sooner or later, we'd run out of things to say. It's not like there's anything new happening at the moment, after all.

I do appreciate that you feel this way, and everyone will take your comments on board for the future, as you did a fine job bringing the boys back home on the "Final Cut" debate.



Take it easy man,


Cheers,



Mark