Man, what a haul that was. I've finished reading the whole drama, and I have to agree with Jack K. It is "sheepish" to respond to the martial law around here with, "Oh well, what can you do?" You can stop spending money here. I quit buying more than a year ago, and I'm managing just fine. I'm sure I haven't made much of a dent in R's revenues, and it took months to stop torturing myself by wandering in the market place, but I have lots of places to shop that don't treat me like sheep ("Screw 'em, shear 'em, roast the meat"). Totalitarian states have a simple solution when force and intimidation don't work: Pick a scapegoat--nice to have women to choose from--and march her out to the mob. This place has a fundamental flaw that will not go away but continue, as it has for years, to appear here, then there, like rash. It doesn't care about anything except making a few people more wealthy. The site will eat your money till it vomits, then fill the new space with more. That is not a community. What is wrong here is not "communication." R communicates very clearly who it is and what it thinks of its members. No amount of communication will change an attitude. M