Many thanks for your support, Bill. Congratulations on making that evasive person come so far out from behind his defensive anonymity. He actually appears to be a man of some considerable [& admirable] achievement (tho, as you observe, not entirely free of smugness about it!) ~~ as well I find after a bit of research on previous threads, as being 6'4" in height. So I wonder what can possibly be his motivations for being so peculiarly spiteful & vindictive. Ulcers, perhaps?
I wonder too what can possibly have originally caused so much animus against me on his part. Hasn't even had long to acquire it either; unlike you, who have been here since the date you mention 17 years ago, and me, for exactly four years, he only joined last December. But I don't propose to lose any sleep puzzling over it. Nor to open this thread again, or read any further posts he might put up elsewhere. He clearly has nothing to say that can be of any possible interest to me.
Meanwhile, my formal complaint to the Cat authorities as to his gratuitous offensiveness remains. Haven't heard back from them yet, but live in hopes to do so in due course.