>Rather than anyone demanding an apology, I propose we all >apologize. Tom can apologize for using your post to reply to >a previous discussion (whether he did it intentionally or not), >you can apologize for overreacting to what you thought Tom >intended, and I'll apologize for . . . uh, whatever it was that I >did wrong. Actually, I'm sorry for my part in escalating >the flame war, for making too much fun of those 2005 posts, etc. > >OK?
OK. I accept. We can all climb down and apologize. Correct analysis and good insights: I definitely did consider the "M$" thread to be a branch of earlier threads and treated it as such. If you look at how the threads go around here you will often see that the discussion zigzags through a cluster of threads. Sometimes these spawns are labeled with a "Was:" note. Sometimes threads make puzzling jumps. For example the current thread "OS X on Dell Mini 9" has long departed its subject line to carry on threads with very different subject lines. Note that today Eric made a long post to "OS X on Dell Mini 9" but the content is really more pertinent to "In Defense of Idiots" or the older discussions "Laptop Hunters." ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
