As this solicitation, which refreshed the thread, was rightly deleted, my ill advised post was left flapping in the breeze (as it were) and benefited greatly by being deleted.

May I apolgise for wrongly stating that you had posted to refresh that thread?

However, even if the post that did refresh the thread was rightly deleted, as you contend - it seems clear that all the subsequent confusion would have been avoided - if some indication of its deletion has been provided by whoever it was who imposed their anonymous judement on that post and also on the subsequent posts.