Jack: I have quite recently confirmed (discussion at board level) that the second 'Philip' post of 17 May 2006 was authentic. I had, months earlier, already established via analysis that most of the others were authentic, it's not hard to do, because the dates and content of the posts can be correlated with the RNSs. What remains unknown is the implied major 'deal' to which he referred in the later posts, some of us have reason to think there may have been some sort of deal in the offing at that time, and it may have been scuppered by the negative sp response to the North Souedieh drilling, but what that (hypothetical) deal was, I simply don't know. bob
edit: my (very strong) personal advice is to read them all.
imho DYOR etc as always