At the risk of offending anyone's sensibilities by appearing contentious, my post (#40594) was per se demonstrably not an ad hominem argument — my explicit observation (complaint, if you will) was that the thread had meandered so far afield as to not have any relevance to its original subject matter.
From what I can gather, there is consensus at least on joemikeb's request to the moderators of the forum to close the thread. So let it be written. So let it be done.
