Jim,
I don't feel I "over-reacted" at all, nor am I being "thin skinned" or "argumentative". ONLY after I replied twice to your posts did you go into a better explanation about who your comments were directed towards. Before this last post of yours people could have very well thought they were directed to anyone using the word obsolete.

As for......

"that it might be easier to discontinue using the term and instead come up with a set of different terms that allow for the various conditions of obsolescence."

That will never happen on my end as I know what the word means. As I said before, if people abuse the word then point that out on a case by case basis, don't just run from the word or say we should not use it because you can't nail down an exact definition that you are comfortable with. I AM comfortable with what I feel the word means. As Gene would say, stick a fork in me as I am done on the subject. Andy - Las Vegas