The Tech Log should not be made inaccessible to any legitimate questioner Mr Moderator, but it does loose some relevance with questions worded in such a way as the one which started this thread.
Agreed. Regardless of what a mod might do, some will find it wrong .. goes with the territory. My position regarding awkward or poorly posed questions is that the forum folk are in a good position to play with the original question and eventually tease out what the original poster was trying to ask. In the process I suspect that others on the sidelines will learn a bit along the way ?
I see my role quite clearly as not being the arbiter of what is sensibly rigorous or trivial but, rather, to keep the lunatic fringe at bay (rarely a problem in Tech Log) and to keep the discussion on a reasonably even keel.
When next I am driving north past Taree (probably later this month) perhaps we should have an ale and discuss matters philosophical ...