Greetings and Happy New Year from Wisconsin (of which we have no snow on the ground) to all who come to this site...........Tomorrow brings in the New Year.....as one who visits this board at least once a day, I would hope to see the new year bring in some new feelings to this board....one would be "respect" for one another...we, as a group, can ignore the messages that bother us. If no one responds to them, there will be no answer to the sender. By responding, it only adds fuel to the fire. You leave yourselves open to name calling, and answering horrible messages, rather than... shall we say, turning your cheek. If you feel you have to answer these messages....than "YOU" too are making the message board an ugly place to come to. Because I believe we are all here because we collect silver strikes and hope to gain news about them, or make trades, or even sell. I do not come to this site to read the messages from people who like to add these ugly messages to the site. I have learned to recognize what does and does not relate to SS news, and I only read the one's that apply. In this world, we are made up of many people, who are all very different from each other.....and I would hope our goal would someday be, to get along with each other, respect one another, and look towards an ideal that one day we all will achieve that goal....So lets try to start the New Year right and bring a new mood to this board of positive feelings...and stay away from the negative...As a SS member, #219, I have watched us grow in size, now let's all grow up to be better people in this New Year....Christine F. Rurup (queenibe) (qru2002@yahoo.com)