>>>Autospanning was great. But that wasn't the point. There was a false appeal to false authority to try to bolster credibility - maybe to soothe the angriest voices in the VFP community at the time, but it wasn't honest.
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>If you mean my reference to YAG's commitment about autospanning then yes, I was impressed by what YAG said. Less so by the interpretation certain people tried to impose. Certainly I don't consider YAG to be a false authority.
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>>>I've been a columnist for nine years. I've made plenty of technical mistakes - and I've been corrected many times - but I've never doubled down or did a "how dare you" when corrected.
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>Not sure how this comes to be about you, or me. I thought it was about teen pregnancies.

And here's the problem - you're twisting the words and facts. Certainly, anyone who knows YAGs work going back to the early days of Fox knows that YAG is not a false authority. But YAG's position was not one of a corporate senior executive. We've been over this many times. Yes, YAG was a highly respected individual - I've written about that many times. The highest technical position at the time was that of a Technical Fellow - a very esteemed position but not an executive one. You made an accusation of smearing when in fact you presented a false pretext.