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Tichfield, it could be either. Like many on here, in the absence of discerning evidence for one or the other, I'm looking for the majority opinion.
As far as the second posting goes, i had one of the notorious AB timeout errors which seemed to indicate my first post had got lost in the ether. It was only after I repeated the post, that it became clear it had gone through after all. I'm afraid this occurence is commonplace on AB and no doubt you will encounter it in time.