Jim -- I'd rather not see ANY name calling. I was merely relating my experience with Don, which has always been cordial. Sometimes the comments and actions of one person will effectively "bait" another into making an uncharacteristic comment; this is what I think happened here.

You take pride in your plain-spokenness -- and that's fine. However, you shouldn't be totally surprised when your sometimes personally insulting comments generate a personally insulting response.

As I said before, your "just kidding" intention wasn't obvious here. You're not the only one failing recently in that regard (see my message to Chuck Smorse re "Three words"). I'd still rather see more of your informational messages and less of the others. ----- jim o\-S