I wish to apologize to the forum. In responding to another thread, I lost my temper and let things go further than they should have. I still believe passionately in my original position, that you don't say bad things about another person without facts to back it up, especially when the other person isn't there to defend themselves. But all the rest of the stuff that got said in that thread, by me and another person, was way out of line.
One of the reasons I so like this forum, and this site in general, is that there is still some level of decorum and politeness. I don't want to see it degenerate into something resembling another well known site. And I certainly don't want to be partially responsible for causing such a degeneration.
So, again, I apologize.