[Cloudbringer]

My fellow Ironworks members, I'm going to be very blunt here, so please bear with me.

'Letters' like this can be inflammatory in my book. They leave lots of little 'mysteries' and questions in reader's minds, and are usually meant to make people start asking around and casting aspersions on others. This often causes a split on the forum when members end up 'choosing sides' over something that in most cases started out too small to fret about but got worked up into a 'mountain from a molehill', as they say.

In addition, as Moiraine pointed out, things like this are only one side of what is most likely a much more complex situation. I would point out that 'nasty email' is a subjective description and one person's rational or well meaning comment may be seen by another as 'nasty' and malicious. We all have different tolerance levels and viewpoints.

I'm very sorry that one member has felt the need to leave the board and feels so badly about some of her time here. It was, however, her decision and hers alone to make, so I respect that. Let's honor her good times here, by not muddying up the waters we are all swimming in with rumor and innuendo.

I know we are a wonderful group of caring and fascinating people here and I can only hope that we will refrain from 'gossiping' and 'guessing' in posts about things we have only partial knowledge of. That route can lead to unpleasantness for all of us in the end.

Cloudy