Dear Anne, I apologize if you have felt any animosity towards you. It was not meant. As you know, I am not a native speaker of english. Maybe it is just a misunderstanding. You say:
And you have apparently missed some posts, because this is the third time in less than a month that Carlo has dropped on me like a ton of lead, assuming I have assumptions that I do not have. The first two times I laboriously explained what I was saying and why and how I had not meant what he assumed I meant.
Sorry, I should have missed them too, I don't remember having answered posts of yours recently, and I have not found one in the last year of gutvol-d. Of course I often disagree with you, our point of view is different. Another coincidence might have been bad in my post: I had answered much earlier, but the mail was delayed by the mailer, and arrived when the post was already answered (you can check in the header, I answered on saturday, and arrived late on sunday). So my post seemed to be insisting on a point that was already discussed enough. I would not have sent it on sunday. Carlo