Spaw,

"There isn't Russ....."

Sometimes your replies are more opaque than usual. I'm still trying to parse this one.

Anyway,
Let the record show that I made a sincere effort to be as vague as possible in my example, and I didn't have any problems with the tone of your reply to the other poster.

Anyway,
The responses were exactly what I was looking for. Calm, rational, informative.
...
for a while

Many years ago I started a thread called "Hijacking a Thread". I think a link at the top of this thread would be appropriate.