>It is fairly common within Britain to refer to incredibly trivial errors as "deliberate mistakes", on the basis that the person is obviously far too clever to have made that sort of mistake, therefore it must be deliberate. (At least it's common with all of the people that I know, across a wide part of the country). I keep forgetting, there is a great cultural divide, especially where humour is concerned.

An explanation of that may have helped.

>The message went on to point out the far from trivial fault that the routine could cause the deletion of files. Pointing out this fault was a major crime as well, apparently.

Where did anyone jump on you for pointing out the error?

>At the end of the day, Ed Rauh is simply a rude, obnoxious bully, with an overinflated view of his own ability. Or maybe this is another cultural divide, once you get to a certain ability (not that I think he has), you can be as rude as you want & people will defend your right to be so - it's different here in Britain.

Ed Rauh may be blunt at times, and may hurt the delicate sensibilites of some, but so far as his ability, I have not seen anyone on the UT who even comes close. Is Ed perfect? No. But there is no one here with his level of expertise.