'I think your objections are valid and I will try to curb my enthusiasm at least as it pertains to written word.'

i hope you were saying those words with tongue in cheek.

you have a right to your enthusiasm regardleess of what any self-appointed 'devil's advocate' says.

your points are valid and do not need to be beaten down just because that's his philosophical bent at present.

a simple acknowledgement rather than a school marm reproach would have sufficed.

imhonesto