Agree



Sorry to anyone that took anything that I wrote as speculation - I was testing the hypotheses behind someone elses speculation. I certainly wished to cause no offense and tried to make that clear. There was a separate thread for expression of condolences - that is not polluted by this discussion and I would never have posted my comments to that.

However, I do feel that speculation that is based on a misreading of a report or a lack of understanding of a unit (I believe that both apply here and I have seen both any number of times in other discussions) should be challenged. Someone said in another thread about pre-reading for a Mod 1 course that one of the dangers of reading RBW is that the information is sometimes wrong - do we want to let inaccurate speculation on a thread like this stand?



Agree, but berating people for speculating isn't the right approach (unless they are genuinely offensive, which I don't think anyone here has been). Addressing their speculation is, IMHO.

Just my 0.2p worth,