On Sat, 17 Jan 2004, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: > Philip Hart <philiph at SLAC.Stanford.EDU> writes: > > > You're quite simply wrong, but I won't bother to educate you on this point > > in the spirit of point b). > > Insisting on having the last word is not in the spirit of point b. > (Note that I'm not so insisting myself just now.) You're certainly correct - on the other hand, it seemed to me that the above post was a distillation of the post it responded to. Note for the record that I've corresponded with that poster and learned that he (as far as I understand) objected to the second adjective in my original post in this thread, and that I acknowledge that it was imprecise, and that anyone wishing to know which adjective he and I agree would adequately express my opinion on the subject at hand while not contradicting his view of the events to which the thread referred - any such person is welcome to email me privately. I hearby invite any and all with an interest in further perpetuating this thread to chime in with the knowledge that I won't.