Mr. Alvey,

  Thank you for your free speech, and as you can see it begets more free speech in reply.  Good for you, learning a lesson in good commerce and civility.

  I'm no fan of Robert Franco's positions on industry topics, he and I disagreeing and occassionally agreeing to disagree, but I respect his hard work on establishing a professional and well managed forum for all of us to use.  It's a great resource that we have used for free in the past and more recently as subscribers and with great success. 

  Indeed, it has benefitted us with new clients and from the professional contacts we've made.  The knowledge imparted is tremendous.  You cannot seriously say that you knew EVERYTHING that has been addressed here. 

  I'll join your little group as a business move, but I'm certainly not about to abandon this wonderful group of colleagues (despite the fact that a few might like to see me take a hike...lol). 

  See ya around, buddy.

  William