[Ted Craven]

Patrick,

You may have differences of opinion with Dave, but repeating private correspondence in public without permission is not good etiquette, certainly not at this website, and really not anywhere else. I took the liberty of removing that private correspondence from your initial post. In the future, please ask the correspondent for permission before doing that.

(I myself was, I thought innocently, but none-the-less guilty recently of publicly citing stats provided in private correspondence, so let's neither of us do that again without permission, OK?)

Ted