Well, this thread certainly dropped off in postings....? :-)
To the casual on- looker: yep, it went from calm and mildly amusing to 'over the top' in about three seconds. As usual in these things, there is a back- story:
Back around the beginning of the year, several of us had a.... oh, let's call it a clash, on the other forum. As usually happens in events involving humans, people took sides and things got a bit intense. Certainly Steve and I clashed. That issue is over and has been for some time and generally, things have calmed down. Of course there are still open wounds and when Steve posted about some people's attitudes towards C-10 owners, I took that as a direct barb jammed into an open wound. That is when things went downhill. Others jumped into the fray, as I said it was an old issue, hotly contested. It is nothing short of amazing how fast an old disagreement ramps up when compared to a new one; this was an old one.
So there it is: this is just the next chapter in an old tussle. Maybe it is over, and that would be great. Maybe not, and that is fine too- either way we will all go on.
Brian