Moldie -- I want you to come back. Variety is the spice of life and you enlivened the board and I respect your integrity and viewpoints and like you, too. It was not right that you were chased off the board (or allowed yourself to be) because of the comments you refer to. Frankly, I have to agree with you. I have been in shock at the aggressiveness of those comments. Just for the record, I very much appreciate Eric, and have never questioned his desire to help, his integrity and his sincerity. I'm glad he has a following as he deserves it, but I have found over the months, that some of the defenders have become so quick to move in -- without thinking things through -- almost like bodyguards (!!) It does give an impression, right or wrong, of leaving others out. And right or not, I've been put off by it myself (although I noted that Eric, as he said, did not for the most part encourage it). Let the chips fall where they may.P.S. One thing -- from what I know about Mike (and this is what he told me through personal e-mails long before he hooked up with Eric or came on the board), he is far more of an IBS expert than you might think. His special training is for IBS and to get that credential, he has to have treated a caseload of IBS patients. The course, I believe, is specifically geared toward that condition. That's more than some GI's and certainly more than most hypnotherapists in the US. I think you could call him an IBS expert after a fashion.P.P.S. To those of you here at Parkview, hi -- I'm Persist! Sorry to butt in this way, but I didn't have Moldie's e-mail![This message has been edited by Persist (edited 03-02-2000).]