Jay, we've had a few disagreements in the past ;-) but I don't think you are at fault here.
IMHO it is *highly* significant that people clicked to what you were talking about, despite the initial vagueness of your scenario.
You did not cause that widespread recognition; IMHO it is something to think about for the participants in this sorry tale.
FWIW, now that I've seen the letters I find myself shaking my head in disbelief, and wondering whether normal UT users need to create new "Renoir" UT ids in case one of our esteemed leaders decides to finish us too.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
