Has it ever occurred to anybody out there that there would not exist an "expat forum" if it were not for the posters? The "Administration"--Burlingame Interactive-- sponsors a forum for expats. They rake in a huge amount of money every month from advertisers whose target market is exactly expats. Do you think that the forum has a responsibility to its posters? Some common decency here for the people that enable their monthly income might be a nice inter-exchange. As you all know, I'm personally bugged by the eradication of valuable pages of information just because Burlingame Interactive doesn't want to pay a few dollars extra to archive some extra megabytes. I think things should be put in perspective here. Private messages do not arrive, posts 'disappear' and political correctness extends to information about diet soda.....Hey---administration, if it were not for us, you would not have a paycheckl! I wonder if this will be posted! If it isn't, I will send everyone on the forum an email!