Jeez - for cancer people you guys have a thin skin. It is only that with over 20 million hits per month on the site, 6k posters over the years on these boards, 85,000 postings (not including the thousands which have been pruned over the years), and the hundreds of emails that I get a month, you have to understand that most of this has come up before.

I was NOT angered by it misskate. (Never one to give me much slack about my manner, but greatly valued as a contributor.) I just wish once in awhile someone would search the message board database before trying to reinvent the wheel. I get that it was just suggested in a positive tone, and was not a criticism of the site. This site is far from perfect and there is much more I wish we could afford to do to make it so. And I'm sorry if my late night post sounded harsh, that was not my intent.

The chat room question has been discussed here several times and explanations for not having one have been offered each time. This is essentially what Gary said. If anyone wants to start a chat room on the web - which you can do for free, I will certainly support you and refer to it. As a side note, there are no protections in a chat room that you won't get erroneous information since no-one else ever reads your conversation once it has been closed for the session. OCF has always had people that monitor these boards, and if something is clearly in error, posted a correction. We are really lucky to have doctors here, and silent monitors, as well has highly knowledgeable people that have been through it all in spades, to see that what is suggested to new people does no harm. In the end that is the most important reason not to have them.