Well, I will anyway. Mbo, I always hope that our roughhousing on these various threads has not gotten under your skin, and i want you to know it was in know way meant to reduce you or make less of you. I count you as a friend, and I try not to hurt friends, so if I have misestimated, let me know. I apologize to you if so.

We put a certain amount of our personae into a public domain when we write to threads like these, and the humor of them is -- I think -- more around the forms we have mutally materialized in cyberspace than it is about those behind the keyboards. I hope this is not just a cheap rationalization but I do not think so.

Mbo, what do you think?