Tony,

Please take care to avoid terms like "Style Nazis" on the mailing list. Even if you don't mean anything nasty by such terms, you need to know that others may take offense.

I myself have been known to take offense at innocent terms like "cult" applied to my church, even though it only means "religion regarded as spurious by others".

The problem is that we cannot hear or see each other, and it is unfortunate that discussions are can easily be derailed into personalities by even a single usage of what might be a perfectly innocently-intended term.

Please note that this is entirely without prejudice to the issue of whether people are being fanatical about date formats, an issue I am going to bow out of. I am more concerned with brotherly harmony here.

Uncle Ed, aka Ed Poor