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You, and the non-profit organizations you are involved with, are to be
commended for trying to make it better.

It may be useful for you to know that Dave has characterized himself in this
newsgroup as a curmudgeon. From the same dictionary he uses for his attacks
on you (www.dictionary.com ):

"Curmudgeon, n.  "An ill-tempered person full of resentment and stubborn
notions"

so Dave's self-analysis is spot-on in my opinion and experience.

As Dave wrote in this thread, his original post was a  "ploy [that] was
meant to bait".

The subject line of the thread he started was flat-out wrong, the general
subject barely on-topic for this newsgroup, and Cinergy BPL technology not
available at his apartment.

In other words, the post was for the sole purpose that your (Ed's) response
achieved --  to satisfy Dave's personal needs.

IMO, part of Dave's pathology is the need to be 'fer or agin'. Which leads
him to connive and twist and misrepresent in order to set up and maintain a
dog fight as he has transparently done in this thread.

So despite his specific claim to the contrary, he does "have a dog in this
fight" -- namely his ego and his compulsion to belittle and bully.

Dave's also a feller compelled to bet on dogs and hosses  -- dead, live,
straw, Technologies, HA gizmos -- don't much matter long as thar's
squawkin', cussin', an' dodgin' -- an' his dog comes out on top or his hoss
is first.

And once the race is on, there's no changing hosses for Dave. And so he
can't actually be objective in the discussion despite the smug veneer and
his Word-Of-The-Month vocabulary.

   Said McCoy to the rest of his kin,
   See, them Hatfields jes' ain't gonna win.
   Now our wimmen, awright,
   Got no dog in this fight,
   But us fellas, we's fer or agin."
      (Credit:Chris Doyle in OEDIF)

We all wish Dave well.
Some of us also wish that he would get better.

Happy Holidays ... Marc
Marc_F_Hult
www.ECOntrol.org