Offer me some encouragement please.
Longwalker
Maybe look at it this way. I view this forum a little like really good pub with a varied offering and varied clientele. There's a lot of very interesting viewpoints and information here. Your post, to be specific is very interesting and I've been watching it without comment thinking my own thoughts (Scandinavian? Central / Southern Europe? etc.). The subject has been very worthwhile on the whole.
Like a pub, there's always the chance you might have some drunken bums get into an incoherent rant (not taking sides here) or sit next to some prattling gossipy old bags, but on the whole that doesn't stop me going back to a good "local". I know it's disappointing; I get disappointed myself to see good threads degenerate into drivel but there's still a lot of good info here.
But back to the topic at hand. I found some of the marks very interesting in that they seemed identical to some Swedish and Finnish ones. I'm probably wrong about that as it only came from scanning the internet for various obscure proof marks. The main point here is just to say thanks for stimulating some interesting comments and indirectly raising my knowledge a little.
Jeremy
