BS>>   Thanks - it all worked great! 
DM> This will be on-topic only insofaras I'm asking about the echo's 
DM> moderation.  Who is supposed to tell Bob that 
 RS> "thank-you messages" are 
DM> off-topic, the moderator (Tom) or the zone's co-
DM> moderator (Roger)?  :-)
                        ^^^
 RS>  IMHO - a thank you for a Snippets submission is a little different
 RS>  than a newbie writing a thank you for help.  For one thing newbies
 RS>  usually send one to everybody who replies to them.
Note the smiley.  I think Bob caught it (though he pretended not to for the 
first half of his message), but didn't seem to be caught here.  I am *not* 
second-guessing the moderators, the usefulness of Bob's message, or any of 
the above.  I was merely poking fun at an ex-moderator who has, many times, 
expressed how off-topic his own message (almost) was.  :-)
 RS>  And, besides.  Bob's been here since dirt and he's a major
 RS>  contributor.  If that don't get you a little leeway, then I'd like
 RS>  to know what does.
Being a very black-n-white person, I'm not one to give leeway.  I grant 
thateveryone has the right to a mistake (or two ... dozen), but the guru-ness 
of the person has nothing to do with this (having seen you and I catch Bob, 
Auke, et al, in a few odd mistakes in their code, for example).
The only positive point in this fun-poking is that I can better understand 
why a new person wants to write a "Thanks - it all worked great!" (and thus 
off-topic) message... when those who have enforced the rule for years will 
still succumb to the pressure.  ;-)  Only makes me want to give more leeway 
to the newbies, not the major contributors.
 RS> ... I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it.
Hmmm... sounds like me.  :-)  Here's one for ya (suits me to a 'T'):
... The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
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