Bill, I'm going to respectfully disagree with you here, in the sense that I fail to see where Ian did anything wrong. In his first response to Diki's post, he stated his feelings and his case clearly and succinctly, and frankly, it should have ended there (the riff). Neither of these guys are mean or malicious, and clearly Diki was just trying to use what he considered a familiar scenario to make a point, but in so doing, introduced facts not in evidence, ie. projecting how Ian would react in a hypothetical situation. Ian didn't like it, said so, and asked that another example be used. A really lightweight apology ("sorry pal, no malice intended", etc.) followed by a different example, preferably one that didn't involve forum members (why take a chance on invoking bad feelings from someone), would have nipped this in the bud.

The biggest problem here is that both guys (both of whom I consider friends) along with a few others here (not me, of course ), suffer from "lastworditis". We just can't seem to 'let it go' without one last ditch effort to make our point (the next post for Diki or Ian is going to prove my point ).

Hey, no harm, no foul. They were friends before this and they'll be friends after this. Diki is grumpy because of all the unseasonably cold weather (for Florida) and Ian is suffering from 'cabin fever'.



chas