I'm putting pen to paper

The threads congratulating out regulars are a little different in that they are regulars here, of course it makes sense to compliment them right here

Dave G and Carl are also regulars here and put a lot of work into the mag..............so (as you say), it makes sense to compliment them here.

In my eyes both threads are fundamentally the same with the same purpose and deserve the same respect. I've never seen such debate on a thread set up to say well done X,Y or Z on a great image published this month in whatever magazine you care to name.

In the words of Forrest Gump "That's all about all i have to say about that".

This whole issue is much ado about nothing so let's bury it.

Theres no different rules so to speak! People just feel strongly about this subject! therefore there are more opinions to be voiced! neutral arguments dont have as much of a response! but positive and negative arguments do!

Guys, we're all astronomers by hobby are we not?

Is this maybe some sort of Irish thing where we have to have two of everything who run each other down? It's just the same up north here where I found myself on the end of a personal vendetta when I left one club and joined the other one. What a complete nonsense!

The effect of all this is that onlookers who might have been looking in thinking this is a nice place just roll their eyes and move on, and particularly as we approach IYA 2009 when we're supposed to be working together to get more people interested in our hobby, this is exactly what we don't want.

As it happens I enjoy reading A&S magazine - my only criticism would be that it's a bit slow getting up here so I haven't seen the latest one yet.

PJ is dead on when he shares his view of a magazine going from strength to strength, both from a standpoint of sharing that with the rest of us and also from giving due credit to regular contributors here who are involved in that magazine - so Dave, Carl and any others involved, Congrats on an excellent publication and please keep at it.

That's my 2p, thanks for reading!

That's my 2p, thanks for reading!

Get with the €uro man, we don't deal with pence here! :lol:

Or my 2.5c even!

Here here paul well said! we should be setting a good example!

your 2.54124 cent to be exact!