If anyone's interested, I'm back from my ickle holiday =)
f) Don't start an entire thread to talk back and forth with someone. Use PMs, AIM, IRC, Yahoo Chat or whatever other direct chat method... If you intend for your thread to have a conversation with many people, that is fine. Don't announce you're here or gone, everyone can see who is online or not.
guess you were too excited to be back you forgot rule f-Let