Strange isn't it how you write what you think is a pleasant sort of e-mail explaining something in what you believe is a reasonable way and the other fellow gets all hot under the collar for, as far as you can see, no apparent reason. I really dislike e-mails for that reason - they just don't communicate tone and expression in the same way as, e,g, a chat over a pint.

In fact, I didn't think I or anyone else had been slighted, but I did think perhaps my use of the word "honorary" was rather clumsy and needed a bit of explanation after your comment "whatever that is". I suppose that's what you mean by epistemology. Oh well, like you Gibb, I'm not really that interested, and anyway I get the feeling that whatever I say you will get even angrier for no good reason, so maybe we should close this thread here.