>All I stated was that either he knew about thye serious fault & did not bother to mention it, which is unacceptable - or he didn't know about it & really should have been greatful for some to highlight it for him.

No, you stated: "Once you've sorted out the deliberate errors in the above code" which means what I said and not what you said. Its insulting (almost as insulting as telling me thats not what you said).