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As for Capital Kiwi, he was abusing his privileges on the board by stalking wwh from thread to thread with deliberately offensive remarks. Whatever provocation wwh may have offered CapitalK in the past, that is no excuse for him to contaminate the atmosphere for others.

The above, of course, completely ignores the reality, that it was simply banter between friendy acquaintances of long standing. Dr. Bill has himself engaged in making such remarks about others with whom he gets on well. To publicly berate someone's actions without a full understanding of the nature of those actions is counterproductive, and carries more than a whiff of hubris.