Tweeters and Obol,
Thank you all for answering my original questions under the subject
of "Slash Burning". I have greatly appreciated the diverse perspectives,
and apparently so have many of you. Now I'm asking you to please drop the
subject (or at least the subject line). A thread has clearly run its
course when continuing discussions include totally-off-topic petty
bickering under the original banner. Again, thanks to all of you who have
contributed, but please, for everyone else's sake, stay on topic or change
the subject line on messages that are clearly off the original topic.

Bruce Harrison
McMinnville, Oregon