I appreciate the fact that some posters have an awfull lot of equipment that they no longer use but I fail to see how mentioning it / the country of origin is helpful to other users of the forum.

It would be like a member of automotive forum listing out every Pontiac, Oldsmobile, Saturn, Mercury, AMC, DeSoto et cetera that they may have once driven and mentioning how poorly constructed vehicles from Detroit or Springhill or Milwaukee were...

More than a little annoying that these sorts of things are still in the "978 Release Date" thread too.