"can i ask where you getting your stats/info from ??"
>>From quite a big range of friends/contacts/family, and I think that they represent the larger population quite well.
"again see no evidence of this, search the forum you will see that many people come and post ther opinions and thngs"
>>. . . That is my point. You don't see those people because they don't post. For every user that posts here there are 100s, maybe 1000s who don't.
"you can sign up and post a thread with in about 5 mins"
>>>If you are lucky, yes. But there are the possible mail problems, the filling in of the profile, the actual typing of a good arguemented posts... it can easily take up to half an hour
But even 5 minutes is often too much nowadays.