Kye wrote:
By the way, none of that was meant to be offensive, more tongue in cheek I
think...
[...]

It was probably emboldened by years of Internet impunity to make the
fatal error of talking to somebody in real life they way it often did
on Usenet: even if not immediately fatal, the likely consequences would
make a full recovery problematical. People like CV are a threat to the
usefulness of this medium, and have no excuse.

--
Mike.