Bill: Many thanks for your thoughtful & considered response, with which I in the main agree. But you will have gathered from my 2nd post, cross-posted with yours, that my initial question was most specifically addressed to those [whom I named 2nd time around] who had most vociferously and abusively objected to my [I still maintain] much provoked expletive on that previous occasion, but had most singularly failed to react to this more recent entirely gratuitous one -- in which, I reiterate, I can't see that the '*' will have done anything but make matters worse for reasons I expounded last time.

Best regards - Michael