You're excused Pete! :thumbup:
And please excuse me for this, I'm not having a dig at you or anyone about it, rather commenting on the practices here because you mentioned it, effectively throwing it open as a point for discussion - inadvertently likely, but it is sorta interesting & yeah, maybe I'm taking the thread off topic a tad, but still... :shemademe_smilie:
Think on this for a second or two.... If you were having a beer down the pub & shooting the breeze with your mates when someone started repeating
everything you had just finished saying before making their response, how long d'ya reckon they'd get away with doing that before someone would poke them in the snoz?? :dontknow:
We generally consider repeating everything someone says before replying as the height of childish rudeness if we do it face to face, but strangely many seem to expect it in a Forum thread... which is, after all, just a printed/displayed conversation made readable/followable by stringing the individual posts together in their posted order in a thread so it's easier to follow... :gaah:
Wouldn't it be 'more polite' just to acknowledge the previous poster by name/username (as you've done in your post above) or at least limit your 'quote' to just the bit necessary for your reply to be clear (especially if it's an epic like mine often are) instead of quoting the whole lot?? :dontknow:
Just a thought & (I think) a point of interest

Hijack over.