`  Hi there, thanks for the advice. The admin process seems to be venal however and there is clear nepotism going on, and I don’t really want to spend any more time on this. The issue you raise re: civility is important though. Yes I probably did go over the top in some of my comments (``a trifle brusque``, to quote Basil Fawlty ), but these comments were made in the heat of the moment. In contrast, the deceit and distortion shown by the editor called SlimVirgin was clearly premeditated; ``in cold blood``, as it were.   I’d be happy to do some spadework for the collaboration project you mention, let’s touch base about this again next week. Cheers,   `