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I have a suspicion I may have some idea what happened. I don't for a moment think this is what Jay intended. But what he wrote did strike me as being rather like "my server is bigger than your server, so shut up" - that is to say, while I've been here long enough to know that is (shall we say) extremely unlikely to be what Jay meant, the text was rather like what would have resulted if that _had_ been what he'd meant, and most of the differences were things Jay didn't say. And a lot of people find it hard to notice unsaid things. So, while Jay didn't outright say (and, I repeat, I don't believe he meant) anything like any of I have no trouble seeing how someone new(ish) to the list could read any or all of those as subtext below what Jay did write. I don't know. I speculate that it comes from having been on the net long enough to have run into plenty of cases of "well _my_ $THING is $BETTER than _your_ $THING" (which are depressingly common) and developed reflexive reactions to them, combined with not having been here long enough to have learnt that that's not something Jay would say. Or maybe even just having been tired or stressed enough to have failed to suppress the reflexive reaction. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mouse at rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B