I am not trying to close this discussion, but the awards which we have announced are staying. They were very carefully thought out, and within the framework which I stated earlier of not being able to please all of the people all the time, they were the best we could come up with. I will be honest, we were actually pretty pleased with them. We would not have put our dear friend's name to anything them if we were not.

However, that does not mean that each of the views expressed here have not been very carefully noted, and they WILL be taken into consideration if and when we plan any other form of recognition of members.

As a general point. In my signature is my email address together with a note saying 'If you don't tell me, I might not know. Please use my PM box or email'. Nobody has ever said to me that they do not like site competitions or site awards. If I had had a body of constructive messages, rather than an odd moan, saying that this was an issue, then we would have taken it into consideration when we were planning these awards.

I am not going to jump each time someone says they do not like something, because with so many members and so many differing opinions nothing would get done. I do listen though, and I don't ignore.

cariad