@Jaybird, might I suggest reading the House Rules.
Your "port delay concerns" are not a problem at all, I perfectly understand them. I can appreciate wanting your port to be in place for your call later today.
I have been asking for clarification of what you have been posting as some of your words have been open to interpretation.
If you feel that that request for clarification, and my other responses, make you feel like you need to walk on eggshells, then perhaps you need to consider "how you would feel" if someone had posted in a similar manner, with you as the object of the comments.
In your post above you say "Far too much hassle already to be dealing with overtly-sensitive readers lecturing that my port delay concerns can 'cause offense'". This, to me, is passive aggressive phrasing.
If you don't like being held responsible for the words you use, then either stop using them, or consider their effect on others (whether that's on forums or at work) before using them, and if needed rephrase your comments.
Although you don't seem to like my responses, they have made me wish I had never tried to help. If you treat others in a similar way, some will stay silent. Others will stand up for themselves, just as I have done.
Good luck with your call later today.
