"What it is it seems to me to be happening here is a
piece of off the wall publication. Rather than engage with someone
who appears to have made a mistake of a pretty high order, of the
receiver, the receivers actions, and where the receiver is within
the FLOSS camp, the receiver of the mail published it.
"This is in my books, bad form and very unnecessary. What should
have been done?
"Perhaps, something as simple as a telephone call, asking any of
the following:"