<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Nov 14, 2025 at 10:21 AM <<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com">spike@rainier66.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span class="m_7598511050969075700gmaildefault"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">></span>…</span></b></span><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"> And we've never had an ugly flamewar of the sort we had here in 2016 and 2020…<u></u><u></u></span></b></blockquote></div></div></blockquote><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"> </span></b></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span style="font-size:13.5pt"><i style=""><font face="georgia, serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>I see, and who was mysteriously at the center of both of those ugly flame wars  in 2016 and 2020 please?<br></font></i></span><span style="font-size:13.5pt"><i style=""><font face="georgia, serif">Shall we consult the archives?</font></i></span></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>Please do, I'm proud of every word I wrote<span class="gmail_default" style="">.</span> </b></font></div></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><span class="m_7598511050969075700gmaildefault"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(80,0,80)"> </span></b></span><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(80,0,80)">  See what's on my new list at  </span></b><b><span style="font-size:24pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(80,0,80)"><a href="https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis" target="_blank">Extropolis</a></span></b></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><font size="1" color="#ffffff">rr7</font><font color="#500050" face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:32px"><b><br></b></span></font><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg7598511050969075700"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_7598511050969075700WordSection1"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;color:white">sf</span><span class="m_7598511050969075700gmaildefault"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:white">?</span></span><u></u><u></u></p></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div>