Bill: Maybe "snide" isn't quite the right word. My dictionary says "snide" implies sarcastic, and I didn't think you were being sarcastic, but you did sound angry, maybe angry that someone had messed up YOUR playground, or maybe angry that your own contribution had been ignored. It even crossed my mind that maybe you thought there was some anti-Semitism involved in the conspiracy to deprive Mr. Meeropol of his rightful credit. In other words, I was wondering where all that anger came from.

I know it's often hard to judge someone's emotional state from an e-mail message. It's easy to mislead or be misled, and to overreact. I have gotten into trouble over that myself, and that's one of the reasons I now usually try to stay out of any controversy. I do this by staying out of the BS threads most of the time. It's rare for people to get pissed off about something on the music side of Mudcat. This sounded like one of those times. Maybe it's my own sensitivity to criticism. I've put too many hours into DigiTrad to take it lightly when someone implies that it's worthless and therefore my work is all in vain. (Your thread title implies that if nothing else.) That gets my dander up. It makes me, at the very least, want to explain why I don't think the DT is worthless, and I don't think my work is in vain.

But do I really need to explain that? Or can you figure it out for yourself? Did your thread title really mean that you were seriously questioning whether the DT was of ANY value? Or were you just being sarcastic? Either way, it makes me very uncomfortable. And I think you've got a lot of nerve accusing other people of using "cute little digs" and "not...adult responses" when your own thread title already set that tone.