> Mr Stockdill wrote:Oh dear, here we go again with the usual paranoid > nonsense! I get the feeling some people will not be happy until we are > all walking around with numbers stamped across our foreheads (or some > other appropriate part of our anatomy) and not permitted to have names > at all. Am I not allowed to know the name of my next-door neighbour > and what he does for a living or the names of his wife and children?I > Write:I wonder if your neighbours would like it if you gavetheir names > and personal details to a magazine or here on the list? I certainly > would not be very happy. Mr Stockdill also Wrote: Genealogists should > be the very last people to impose censorship on themselves. Are we not > supporters of freedom of information and should we not be calling for > more of it, not less?If freedom of speech orinformationis what you > want more of then why are you reporting a fellow genealogist to the > administrator...I think sir, you might only value your own > opinion.Yours Pat > Actually, only very recently I helped my next door neighbour's wife with her ancestry and she was very grateful! As for freedom of information, you clearly totally fail to understand that there is a difference between expressing an honest opinion and turning the debate into a personal attack on another lister, which Graham Williams did through making an ignorant and unreasonable co-relation between my opinions and my former profession. I take it he is no relation of yours, BTW? -- Roy Stockdill Professional genealogical researcher, writer & lecturer Newbies' Guide to Genealogy & Family History: www.genuki.org.uk/gs/Newbie.html "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about." OSCAR WILDE